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The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht' (2020)
Thesis
Green, P. The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'. (Thesis). University of Salford

The journey begins with a mapping of the terrain of praxis in a discussion of autoethnography, popular performance and the postdramatic. A parallel discussion on place and class draws on the tradition of Cultural Studies. These provide the framework... Read More about The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'.

A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy (2013)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2013). The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy. Comedy Studies, 4(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1386/cost.4.1.5_1

There have been many articles but too few rigorous critiques detailing the naissance and flowering of alternative comedy – a rather loose and undefined term for the brand of ‘non-racist, non-sexist’ comedy of the 1980s. The descriptions that do exist... Read More about The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy.

Bell in the ball
Digital Artefact

Danny was blinded in a fight on New Year's Eve 2008. He's angry about it - in fact he's angry about everything. So his long suffering girlfriend suggests he joins a blind cricket team. It's surprisingly competitive and skilful. There's only one probl... Read More about Bell in the ball.