A wide ranging conversation with Dr Phillipa Burt about ensemble theatre, its place in the history of British Theatre and the relationship between that story and ideas within the Drama School.
Philippa Burt is a lecturer in theatre and performance theory and Director of the MA Performance and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research is methodologically rooted in the sociology of the theatre and focuses on the intersections between performance, politics, sociology, cultural theory and economics. Her PhD, which she completed at Goldsmiths in 2015, examined the attempts to create director-led ensemble companies in Britain between 1900 and 1968. More recently, she has published work on the Russophobic attitudes in the British theatre during the 1930s and Anglo-American theatre relations during the First World War.
You can find out more about Phillipa's work including links to her academic work at :
https://www.gold.ac.uk/theatre-performance/staff/burt-philippa/
Including the following articles:
Burt, Philippa. 2018. From the Western Front to the East Coast: Barker's Trojan Women in the USA. New Theatre Quarterly, 34(4), pp. 326-338. ISSN 0266-464X
Burt, Philippa. 2016. 'The Merry Wives of Moscow' Komisarjevsky, Shakespeare and Russophobia in the British Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 32(4), pp. 375-390. ISSN 0266-464X
Burt, Philippa. 2014. Punishing the Outsiders: Theatre Workshop and the Arts Council. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 5(2), pp. 119-130. ISSN 1944-3927
Burt, Philippa. 2012. Granville Barker’s Ensemble as a Model of Fabian Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 28(4), pp. 307-324. ISSN 0266-464X