Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis.Across the four jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, experts consider the impact of curriculum reforms and devolved policy making on the lives of children and young people in poverty. They investigate differences in educational ideologies and structures, and question whether they help or hinder schools seeking to support disadvantaged and marg...

This pioneering collection illuminates the immersive world of Extended Reality Performance (XRP), where avant-garde digital performance-makers push the boundaries of creativity using cutting-edge extended reality (XR) technologies.In an era dominated by rapid advancements in hardware and software, XR technologies have surged in popularity, allowing everyone with a smartphone, tablet or head-mounted display to partake in digital experiences. This collection serves a...

What is the impact of virtual models and realms in contemporary theatre, art and architecture?This volume explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making using a range of case studies drawn from global contemporary theatre, art and architecture practice.It draws upon a rich array of contemporary examples, including the Japanese artist collective Dumb Type, Chinese artist Lu Yang, US-Irani...

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023In this book practitioner and researcher Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as a distinctive type of applied art and performance practice that seeks tangible, therapeutic, and transformative real-world outcomes. It is what Christopher Baugh calls 'scenography with purpose'.Using case st...

This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers and artists. Showcasing recent examples of work – with case studies of lighting practices in Britain, Europe, the US and China – combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to practice, this will enrich your understanding of the role and potential of light in performance and related creative practices.This volume expl...

Longlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man besides theatrical works such as Faust,...

A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated second edition to reflect developments and practice since the 1980s, it offers readers a comprehensive study of the theatre practice which has evolved to become the dominant mode of much contemporary innovative performance.For most audiences, particularly in the Western tradition, theatr...

RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight!Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht!Eine unbekannte, mysteriöse Krankheit verwandelt die Einwohner Bostons in sadistische, blutgierige, irre lachende Killer - die Crazies! Nur ein tapferes Infanterie-Bataillon kämpft gegen die irren infizierten Horden an und versucht, die wenigen verbliebenen Überlebenden zu beschützen. Und das...

Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight! Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen quer durch ein Amerika, welches von furchtlosen, kreischenden Killern überrannt wurde, stehen Lt. Colonel Harry Lee und seine Männer vom 55. Infanterie-Regiment am Stadtrand von Philadelphia. Auf dem Weg dorthin haben sie Tausenden Flüchtlingen Schutz geboten und standen oft vor schier unlösbaren Aufgaben....

RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight!Der Wahnsinn beginnt … wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht!Als eine neuartige Krankheit die Bürger von Boston in sadistische, lachende Killer verwandelt, kämpft ein Infanterie Bataillon darum, die Ordnung in der Stadt wiederherzustellen. Doch als die Zahl der Infizierten wächst, verliert das Bataillon die Kontrolle. Die Soldaten kämpfen ums nackte Üb...

The world would die laughing…When a new disease turns people into sadistic, laughing killers, a light infantry battalion fights to maintain order in Boston. As infection spreads, the Army loses control, and the soldiers find themselves fighting the people they once swore to protect.As the country slides into violent collapse, the lost battalion learns the last bastion of the federal government is still holding out in Florida. Harry Lee, its commander, decides the only hope ...

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023This book uses digital media theory to explore contemporary understandings of expanded scenography as spatial practice. It surveys and analyses a selection of ground-breaking, experimental digital media performances that comprise a genealogy spanning the last 30 years, in order to show how the arrival of digital technologies have profoundly transformed performance practice. Perfor...