University of Kent

Faculty Member, Drama

Lecturer

School of Arts

About

Latest:

Papers:

Emma Rice in Interview with Duska Radosavljevic
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Volume 3, Number 1, 2010, pp. 89-98

The Alchemy of Power and Freedom – A Contextualisation of Slobodan Šnajder’s Hrvatski Faust (The Croatian Faust) – Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 19 (4), 2009

'The Need to Keep Moving: Remarks on the Place of a Dramaturg in 21st Century England'. Performance Research: On Dramaturgy, Vol. 14 (3), September 2009.


Practice as research:

Der Fall Des Ikarus – a music and dance-theatre piece with story by Duska Radosavljevic, directed by George Rodosthenous and music by Demetris Zavros, commissioned by the Cypriot Embassy in Berlin and co-produced by the University of Leeds; performed 28 October 2009, Koeln, Germany.
http://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/zyperninstitut/ikarus_rezension.pdf



My research interests include contemporary British and European theatre practice as well as more specifically – dramaturgy, the creative process and total theatre. My journey into academia has been slightly unconventional as, having completed my PhD, I left the university to work in the theatre industry. Between 2002-2005, as the Dramaturg at Northern Stage and Newcastle University, I worked with a selection of local, national and international writers and theatre artists on devised and new writing projects. More recently, I was employed as the Higher Education Programme Manager at the RSC where I engaged with the issues of kinesthetic learning and teaching innovation at the university level. In addition, every year since 1998 I have been a member of The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence panel of judges at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and have written over 500 theatre and dance reviews for the Stage Newspaper.

At Northern Stage: I was heavily involved in the development and articulation of the company's artistic vision as well as the creation and delivery of practical theatre and creative writing courses in the School of English. My production credits for the company include 1001 Nights Now, Manifesto for a New City, Goldfish, Kaput!, The New Tenant, Geneva, Wings of Desire, Cinzano / Smirnova's Birthday and The Black-Eyed Roses. I was also instrumental in the programming of the Newcastle and Gateshead Gypsy Festival in 2003 and the Barcelona Connection Festival in 2004, and have successfully obtained arts council funding for a research trip to the US and Russia as part of the development of the Chekhov/Carver project – Kaput!.

In addition, I created a series of performance poetry and music events in Newcastle including Witness in Survival, Flying Homages and Valentine Verses with the writers Julia Darling, Linda France, W.N.Herbert, Gillian Allnutt, Colin Teevan and Cynthia Fuller.

As a freelance dramaturg : I have worked for New Writing North, Dance City, Dramaturgs' Network and the National Student Drama Festival. My long term research interest in theatre translation led to a collaboration with the West Yorkshire Playhouse on the production of Huddersfield by Uglješa Šajtinac – the first Serbian play ever to be produced in Britain. In the early stages of my career I was also involved as a performer and director with a number of young theatre companies both in the north of England and in her native Yugoslavia.

Other practice as research projects:
Practice as research

Der Fall Des Ikarus – a music and dance-theatre piece with story by Duska Radosavljevic, directed by George Rodosthenous and music by Demetris Zavros, commissioned by the Cypriot Embassy in Berlin and co-produced by the University of Leeds; performed 28 October 2009, Koeln, Germany.

Symposium by Plato – adapted by Duska Radosavljevic and George Rodosthenous; presented as part of ‘Song, Stage, Screen II’ conference, 25 March 2007, School of PCI, University of Leeds.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paci/assets/SSS%20programme.pdf

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