37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage (2023)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I., & Talbot, R. (2023). 37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage. Comedy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2023.2188834

What follows is an account of the ongoing University of Salford (UoS) Comedy and Performance Art Project. This has evolved into a series of staged and recorded ‘Non-Events’ that broadly seek to uncover any interactions between the fields of Comedy... Read More about 37 funny fragments: the UoS comedy and performance art project assemblage.

Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer (2017)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2017). Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer. Comedy Studies, 8(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2017.1343971

This article will attempt to reposition comic eccentric dance as a metamorphic form that still, surprisingly, exists, and is to be found with reasonable ubiquity, in renewed incarna-tions within twenty first century media. Tracing the origins of co... Read More about Funny walking : the rise, fall and rise of the Anglo-American comic eccentric dancer.

“Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2015). “Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training. London Review of Education, 13(1), 31-42. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.13.1.04

This article questions the current situation for vocational acting training (VAT) in the UK. It aims to provide an update on the report into burgeoning provision of acting training (and the attempt to address subsequent high rates of actor unemployme... Read More about “Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training.