Studies in Theatre and Performance (2020) ‘Artist Development: Class, Diversity and Exclusion’ vol.40 Issue 3
Guest Editors: Liz Tomlin, Joslin McKinney, Jessica Bowles, Paul Geary
CONTENTS
Introduction to special issue: artist development: class, diversity and exclusion
Joslin McKinney and Liz Tomlin
Foreword: Class and the problem of inequality in theatre
Dave O’Brien
SECTION ONE: Structures of Class and Feeling
Why we still need to talk about class
Liz Tomlin
Feeling working class: affective class identification and its implications for overcoming inequality
Katie Beswick
From the producer’s perspective: Kayza Rose
Jessica Bowles
The production of taste: ecologies, intersections, implications
Paul Geary
An act of transgression: performing arts as a subject choice within a coastal area of deprivation
Aly Colman and Geoffrey Colman
SECTION TWO: Structures of Artist Development
Labours of social inclusion: amateur, professional, community theatres
Helen Nicholson
From the producer’s perspective: Yamin Choudury
Jessica Bowles
Becoming civic centred – A case study of the University of Greenwich’s Bathway Theatre based in Woolwich
Tatiana Ellis, David Hockham, Erica Rolle and Pamela Zigomo
From the producer’s perspective: Paul Warwick
Jessica Bowles
Acta community theatre’s ‘cycle of engagement’ and foundation worker programme: creating pathways into cultural participation and work
Kerrie Schaefer, Aqeel Abdulla, Neil Beddow, Jody Cook, Hiba Elhindi, Ingrid Jones, Tracey Harvey, Kathryn Hopkins, Rosalie Pordes, Sara Snook and Helen Tomlin
Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries: case studies from a decade of supporting the next generation of artists from lower socio-economic backgrounds
Kate Danielson and Lilli Geissendorfer
Incubate-Propagate 