Dramatic works have played a central role in the evolution of joint authorship doctrine copyright law. Ironically, genre that began as highly collaborative enterprise has since become focal point for increasingly narrow interpretations authorship. Indeed, origins today’s problematic standard can best be understood through lens dramatic writing, most leading cases on involved disputes over plays...

'Creating Change Where it Matters the Most':Artistic Directorship and Representation in London Theatre Harry Derbyshire (bio) Britain has changed drastically period since Second World War, both terms of demographic make-up its population prevalent social attitudes, but British theatre sometimes struggled to keep up. Despite seismic shifts such as rise realism 1950s or surge feminist playwriting...

In this paper, we discuss the affordances of an approach to representation, interpretation, and democratization sociolinguistic research, which utilizes tools methods theatre. Taking as example a team ethnographic research project conducted across four cities in UK, process creating drama from material observed social practice. Drawing on observations welfare advice centre Chinese community cen...

Escale is a travelling physical theatre company based in France. For most of the past twenty years, its members have lived in caravans and performed in a marquee, bringing experimental performances to rural areas. Their itinerant lifestyle and artistic choices do not only situate them in the margins of the French theatrical landscape, but also in a terminological gap, as ‘physical theatre’ does...