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The David Bradby Award
The David Bradby Award celebrates outstanding research (including practice-based/applied research) in any area of the discipline. The prize is awarded for research that has had an appropriate form of circulation/dissemination must have been published or launched within 24 months of the nomination date. Research which has already secured funding (in any shape or form) is eligible as long as it is within the 24 month limit.
Prof. David Bradby
PRIZES
2017
WINNER
Jim Davis
for Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
The judges felt that the book moved adroitly across concept, example (actor), and exemplification (illustration) to account for the reciprocity of interest, nomenclature, and patronage between Georgian-era performers and painters. Without a shred of pedantry readers are coached in the criteria by which to understand what it means for a painter to capture something “inherently theatrical” about a specific character yet also incorporate the accumulation of a performer’s reputation and the epitome of their unique technique.
SHORTLISTED
Lynette Goddard
for Contemporary Black British Playwrights (Palgrave, 2015)
Cathy Turner
for Dramaturgy and Architecture: Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment (Palgrave, 2015)
WINNING
The Prize
The Prize consists of a free conference place (membership fee, conference dinner and accommodation excluded) and a cheque for £200.
2016
Sally Mackey
For her work and leadership on the project Challenging Concepts of Liquid Place.
The judges felt that from inside, from outside, this project shows change towards place in action and declares its ambition for further work. It is the work of considered scholarship and practice: far reaching, versatile, inclusive and impactful both for the communities with which it worked and for the academic sector which TaPRA represents.
David Barnett
A History of the Berliner Ensemble (Cambridge University Press)
Fintan Walsh
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Palgrave)
Peter Boenisch
Directing scenes and senses: the thinking of Regie (Manchester University Press)
2015
Duška Radosavljevic
For Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (Palgrave)
Sos Eltis
Acts of Desire: Women, and Sex on Stage 1800-1930.(Oxford University Press)
Graham Ley
Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance: Collected Essays. (University of Exeter Press)
Josephine Machon
Immersive Theatres. Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance. (Palgrave)
Mary Noonan
Echo’s Voice : The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude. (Legenda Books)
Nicholas Ridout
Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love. (Michigan University Press)
2014
Kate Dorney & Frances Gray
for the iPad app and book: Played in Britain: Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays
Nicola Shaughnessy
For the ‘Imagining Autism project’
Robin Nelson
Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances (Palgrave)
Jen Harvie
Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Palgrave)
2013
Jacky Bratton
for her book, The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London
Claire Cochrane
Twentieth Century British Theatre: Art, Industry and Empire (Cambridge University Press)
Oliver Double
Britain’s Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre (Palgrave)
Patrice Pavis and Joel Anderson
Contemporary Mise en Scene: Staging Theatre Today (Routledge)
For her book, The Actor in Costume (Palgrave)
For her project ‘It was Forty Years Ago Today: Locating the History of Performance Arts in Wales’MAKE A
Nomination
Only current TaPRA members can submit nominations for our awards or elections. Each nomination requires a seconder, who must also be a current member.
Election Results
The results of the recent Executive election is now published. Including Conference Secretary, Postgraduate reps, Secretary, Communications officer and Working Group Coordinator.
Election Results
The results of the recent Executive election is now published. Including Conference Secretary, Postgraduate reps, Secretary, Communications officer and Working Group Coordinator.
