Backpages 26.3

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. The first half of this issue is dedicated to reflections on the work of playwright and theatre-maker Simon Stephens curated by Caridad Svich.

Notes

1. Richard P. Bentall, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature (London: Penguin, 2003).

2. Simon Stephens, ‘Simon Stephens: Manchester is Richer Than Ever in Theatrical Potential’, Guardian, 19 May 2015 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/may/19/simon-stephens-manchester-home-funfair> [accessed May 19 2015].

3. Ben Brantley, ‘Review: Heisenberg, With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace’, The New York Times, 3 June 2015 <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/theater/review-heisenberg-with-mary-louise-parker-mines-the-extraordinary-in-the-commonplace.html> [accessed 9 May 2016].

4. Michael Billington, ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’, Guardian, 19 April 2005 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/apr/19/theatre> [accessed 9 December 2015].

5. Simon Stephens, ‘Skydiving Blindfolded, Or Five Things I Learned from Sebastian Nübling’, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, 8 May 2011 <http://www.theatertreffen-blog.de/tt11/artikel-zu/stueckemarkt/skydiving-blindfolded/> [accessed 9 December 2015].

6. Ibid.

7. Sarah Kane in an interview with Aleks Sierz, ‘Sarah Kane’, In-Yer-Face Theatre (London: Faber and Faber, 2001), pp. 90- 122.

8. Maddy Costa, ‘Three Kingdoms: The Shape of British Theatre to Come?’, Guardian, 16 May 2012 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2012/may/16/three-kingdoms-shape-british-theatre-or-flop> [accessed 29 February 2016].

9. Catherine Love, ‘Three Kingdoms: New Ways of Seeing, Experiencing, Expressing’, 12 May 2012 <http://catherinelove.co.uk/2012/05/12/three-kingdoms-new-ways-of-seeing-experiencing-expressing/> [accessed 29 February 2016].

10. Sarah Pushon, ‘On Walking Out of Three Kingdoms’, Taking Things too Seriously, 17 May 2012 <http://takingthingstooseriously.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/on-walking-out-of-three-kingdoms.html> [accessed 29 February 2016].

11. Daniel B. Yates, ‘Hardcore Critical Girl-on-Girl Action’, Exeunt, 21 May 2012 <http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/critical-girl-on-girl-action/> [accessed 29 February 2016]

12. Maddy Costa, ‘Fanning the Bonfire’, Deliq., 18 May 2012 <http://statesofdeliquescence.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fanning-bonfire.html> [accessed 29 February 2016].

13. Lucy Powell comment on: ‘Three Kingdoms and Misogyny’, Postcards From the Gods, 18 May 2012 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/three-kingdoms-and-misogyny.html> [accessed 29 February 2016].

14. Maddy Costa comment on: ‘Three Kingdoms and Misogyny’, Postcards From the Gods, 18 May 2012 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/three-kingdoms-and-misogyny.html> [accessed 29 February 2016].

15. Andrew Haydon, ‘Three Kingdoms and Misogyny’, Postcards From the Gods, 18 May 2012 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/three-kingdoms-and-misogyny.html> [accessed 29 February 2016].

16. Yates, ‘Hardcore Critical Girl-on-Girl Action’.

17. Diana Damian in Daniel B. Yates, ‘Hardcore Critical Girl-on-Girl Action’, Exeunt, 21 May 2012 <http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/critical-girl-on-girl-action/> [accessed 29 February 2016].

18. Chris Goode comment on: ‘Three Kingdoms: The Shape of British Theatre to Come?’, Guardian, 16 May 2012 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2012/may/16/three-kingdoms-shape-british-theatre-or-flop> [accessed 29 February 2016]. Emphasis in original.

19. Sarah Pushon, ‘On Walking Out of Three Kingdoms’.

20. Andrew Haydon, ‘Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Gone – Almeida’, Postcards from the Gods, 30 July 2012 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/gods-are-fallen-and-all-safety-gone.html> [accessed 10 May 2016].

21. Stephen Poliakoff qtd. in ‘Alan Rickman Tributes: “Behind his careless elegance...there was a superhero”’, Guardian, 15 January 2016, <https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-tributes-ian-mckellen-sigourney-weaver-ruby-wax-stephen-poliakoff-richard-wilson> [accessed 22 June 2016].

22. There are variant citations of Bondy’s tenure dates, with some sources listing 2002 as its beginning. The dates in this piece coincide with those provided at Wiener Festwochen <http://www.festwochen.at> [accessed 7 December 2015].

23. The exact quote, which can also be found at <http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2744774/> [accessed 8 December 2015], is ‘Mit Wien habe ich eine Hassliebe, doch die Liebe ist grösser’ [‘I have a love/hate relationship with Vienna, yet the love is greater’].

24. Luc Bondy, Mes Dibbouks: Rêves Améliorés, trans. by Olivier Mannoni (Paris: Bourgois, 2006), p. 107.