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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'.

Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate? (2018)
Journal Article
accurate?. Comedy Studies, 9(1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1437166

Are the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy in the process of transformation? I am seeking in this paper to address challenging questions concerning the increasing disappearance of the 'serious' comedy, especially the satirical play on the UK stage... Read More about Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate?.

Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2) (2016)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2016). Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 4(2), 461-463. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2016-0036

Review of: Margaret Inchley. Voice and New Writing, 1997 – 2000: 'Articulating the Demos' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, vii + 204 pp., £55.00 (hardback), £55.25 (PDF ebook). Reviewed by Lloyd Peters, E ˗ Mail: L.Peters@salford.ac.uk D... Read More about Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2).

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).

Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall (2014)
Other
Peters, L. (2014). Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall. The Conversation

The untimely death of me old mucker Rik Mayall last week has prompted a plethora of obituaries in the press and on television and radio. However, as someone who “nearly” grew up with Rik at Manchester University in the mid-1970s (we never quite made... Read More about Young, gifted and punk : my mad days with Rik Mayall.

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
Peters, L., & Brown, G. Bell in the ball. [CD]

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.

Media practice and new approaches to mise-en-scene and auteur theory in broadcast radio
Thesis
Peters, L. Media practice and new approaches to mise-en-scene and auteur theory in broadcast radio. (Thesis). University of Salford

This PhD by Published Work aims to present a coherent programme of original radio research practice produced by the author and placed in an appropriate academic context that explores new approaches to mise-en-scène and auteur theory. The research met... Read More about Media practice and new approaches to mise-en-scene and auteur theory in broadcast radio.