Event overview
The Performance Research Forum hosts a range of events, talks and presentations by established and early-career researchers and practitioners in theatre and performance.
Lucy McCormick and Jen Harvie: Desire, Revenge and Relief
For this event, Lucy McCormick will share insights across her various solo performances - so-called "nightclub interruptions, cabaret interventions, and extravaganza theatre shows". In particular, Lucy will explore and deconstruct the ideas and experiences that led up to her shows Triple Threat (2016), Post Popular (2019), Life: LIVE! (2019), and Lucy & Friends (2022). Touching on recurrent themes around absurdity, ego, fantasy, and the grotesque, Lucy's talk with academic Jen Harvie will also invite conversation and questions from the audience.
Lucy McCormick is a renowned performance artist and actor who has appeared in numerous theatre plays and on screen. Lucy creates and performs cross-genre work inspired by performance art, comedy, theatre and cabaret. As an actor, Lucy recently starred as Catherine in Wuthering Heights (2022) at the National Theatre, performed in Titus Andronicus (2022) at The Globe Theatre and is currently performing in the RSC transfer of Cowbois (2023) at the Royal Court Theatre.
Jen Harvie is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Her research explores how artists make work, especially in neoliberal contexts of production and living. Her books include: Fair Play – Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Scottee: I Made It (LADA, 2018); The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver (LADA and Intellect Books, 2015); and The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre Since 1945 (Cambridge U.P., 2024). She co-founded the series of small books Theatre & (now with Bloomsbury), interviews (often queer) performance makers on her podcast Stage Left (https://soundcloud.com/stage_left), and is working on a project on feminist theatre and performance in this age of austerity.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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