All Outputs (2)

Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2015). Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting. In C. Olsen (Ed.), Acting Comedy (5-24). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673

All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein perf... Read More about Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting.

“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.