Backpages 30.2

Abstract

Backpages is an opportunity for the academy to engage with theatre and performance practice with immediacy and insight, and for theatre workers and performance artists to engage critically and reflectively on their work and the work of their peers. Here, Backpages complements the focus, in this volume of the journal, on Katie Mitchell’s work as director.

Notes

¹ Maddy Costa, ‘Review: The Forbidden Zone at the Barbican’, Exeunt, May 26-29, 2016, http://www.exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-forbidden-zone-barbican/(accessed June 1, 2019).

² J. Oliver Conroy, ‘A Lawyer Set Himself on Fire to Protest Climate Change. Did Anyone Care?’, Guardian, April 26–29, 2019, https://www.guardian.com/environment/2019/apr/15/david-buckel-lawyer-climate-change-protest (accessed June 1, 2019)

³ John Berger, Selected Essays, ed. by Geoff Dyer (New York: Pantheon, 2001). Maddy Costa, ‘Alternative Point of View: The Malady of Death’, Barbican blog, May 4, 2018, http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2018/05/alternative-point-of-view-the-malady-of-death/.

⁴ Maddy Costa, ‘The Malady of Death: An alternative point of view. Maddy Costa chats to Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch about gender inequality’, Barbican Website, Decmber 4, 2017, https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen/the-malady-of-death-an-alternative-point-of-view (accessed November 15, 2019).

⁵ Simon Stephens, A Working Diary (London: Methuen Drama, 2018), 218.

⁶ Ibid., 247.

⁷ Miriam Gillinson, ‘An Introduction to Katie Mitchell’s Theatre’, British Library, September 7, 2017 <https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-katie-mitchells-theatre> (accessed November 1, 2019); Stewart Pringle, ‘The Cherry Orchard’, Exeunt, October 19, 2014 <http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/the-cherry-orchard-2/> (accessed November 1, 2019).

⁸ David Jays, ‘From Sondheim to Dr Seuss – The Jaw-Dropping Designs of Vicki Mortimer’, Guardian, March 4, 2019 < https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/mar/04/sondheim-dr-seuss-designs-of-vicki-mortimer-follies-in-pictures> (accessed November 1, 2019).

⁹ ‘Katie Mitchell on Cleansed’, YouTube, March 7, 2016 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LizhtwXP8A> (accessed November 1, 2019).

¹⁰ For an example of the perceived shock, see: @AndrijaMP,‘I JUST SAW CATE BLANCHETT KISS A WOMAN AND WALK AROUND THE STAGE HALF NAKED WHILE WEARING A STRAP ON WTF’, Twitter, 10:13 PM · January 16, 2019.