All Outputs (44)
Presentation for the Performance and Death Symposium, co-produced by Sick Festival and The New Adelphi Theatre University of Salford
Death, dinner and performance : a study of the efficacy of performance to enhance conversations around death and dying - 300 word statement (2020)
Other
McCormick, S. (2020). Death, dinner and performance : a study of the efficacy of performance to enhance conversations around death and dying - 300 word statement
Video Material (monologue 3 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying (2019)
Digital Artefact
Video Material (monologue 3 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying
Video Material (monologue 2 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying (2019)
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Video Material (monologue 2 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying
Video Material (monologue 1 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying (2019)
Digital Artefact
Video Material (monologue 1 and conversation): The Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying
Working Research Time Line, The Death Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project
Images from the Death Dinner and Performance Project: Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project
Pre and Post Dinner Questionnaires for The Death Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project
This file contains the Working Script and Dinner Menu for The Death Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project
This Supplementary Material: Exposition of Research document Introduces the PaR project (The Death Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying) providing an overview of the or... Read More about Supplementary Material: Exposition of Research, The Death Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying.
300 Word Statement, Death, Dinner and Performance Project: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project
Applied theatre : creative ageing (2017)
Book
McCormick, S. (2017). M. Balfour, & S. Preston (Eds.), Applied theatre : creative ageing. Bloomsbury Methuen DramaApplied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination... Read More about Applied theatre : creative ageing.
Panel discussion : WIT: making art out of illness (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2016, February). Panel discussion : WIT: making art out of illness. Presented at Panel Discussion: WIT: Making Art out of Illness, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Illness not as a metaphor : simplicity and kindness in Margaret Edson’s WIT Programme Note, WIT By Margaret Edson, Directed by Raz Shaw. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. 21 January 2016 - 13 February 2016 (2016)
Other
in Margaret Edson’s WIT Programme Note, WIT By Margaret Edson, Directed by Raz Shaw. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. 21 January 2016 - 13 February 2016WIT is a play outstanding in its exploration of the human condition and the
possibility for enlightenment. In her play, Edson introduces Professor Vivian
Bearing, distinguished scholar of 17th-century English poetry. Through the
course of the play... Read More about Illness not as a metaphor : simplicity and kindness in Margaret Edson’s WIT Programme Note, WIT By Margaret Edson, Directed by Raz Shaw. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. 21 January 2016 - 13 February 2016.
Choosing make believe : pretence or re-orientatation in the care of individuals living with dementia? (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2015, January). Choosing make believe : pretence or re-orientatation in the care of individuals living with dementia?. Presented at Representing Dementia: a symposium exploring representations of dementia within the arts and popular imagination, Royal Holloway, London‘The stage presents things that are make-believe; presumably real life presents things that are real and sometimes not well-rehearsed’ (Goffman, E. 1959, preface).
As a student nurse, one quickly learns two strategies when caring for individuals... Read More about Choosing make believe : pretence or re-orientatation in the care of individuals living with dementia?.
Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults (2014)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2014, August). Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults. Presented at IFTR Annual Conference, University of WarwickAccording to recent government figures, 10 million people in the UK are over 65 years old. The latest projections are for 5½ million more elderly people in 20 years’ time and the number will have nearly doubled to around 19 million by 2050. These st... Read More about Resisting stratification? : arts practice and older adults.
Coffee, cake & culture : evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the community (2014)
Journal Article
Arts for health initiatives and networks are being developed in a number of countries and an international literature is emerging on the evidence of their benefits to people's health, wellbeing and quality of life. Engagement in cultural and creative... Read More about Coffee, cake & culture : evaluation of an art for health programme for older people in the community.
Heroes with Their Hands in the Air: Memory and Commemoration in Contemporary Documentary Theatre (2013)
Journal Article
Documentary theatre has the capacity to confront and challenge its audience; however, there are occasions when examples from the genre avoid confrontation. These examples might not promote ideas consistent with the political status quo; neither, howe... Read More about Heroes with Their Hands in the Air: Memory and Commemoration in Contemporary Documentary Theatre.
The Darkest Corner: documenting institutional abuse and its consequences at the Abbey Theatre (2012)
Journal Article
Documentary theatre, as a theatrical genre, has not maintained a continuous presence in Irish theatre. The Darkest Corner series, produced in 2010 by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland's National Theatre is, therefore, one of the first examples of Ir... Read More about The Darkest Corner: documenting institutional abuse and its consequences at the Abbey Theatre.