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Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
February 25, 2019 @ 5:30 pm
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow
Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway
Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize
Introduced by Louise Lowe (ANU Productions) and Dr Cathy Leeney (UCD)
Book Launch: Monday, 25 February 2019, 5.30pm, Foyer, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
Supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the Moore Institute, Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, the Irish Society for Theatre Research, and the Feminist Storytelling Network
Reviews
‘nuanced, pertinent and timely’ Times Higher Education
‘a timely and significant book…Haughton skillfully weaves together scholarly sources, theatrical criticism, and personal reflection to draw the reader into an exploration of the complexities and ethics of staging traumatic experience’ New Theatre Quarterly
‘Haughton offers insight into the dislocated state of exile and its relation to trauma… a valuable provocation for students and scholars in theatre and performance’ Studies in Theatre and Performance