Edward Gordon Craig, 50 Years On, Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers
Chaired by Dr Rachel Hann, Lecturer in Scenography at University of Surrey
David Brind, former Scenic Artist at Royal Opera House, Lecturer in Art and Design
Prof Katharine Cockin FEA, PFHEA, FRSA
Harvey Grossman, director, teacher - friend and unofficial pupil of Edward Gordon Craig

A discussion recorded on July 31st 2016 at The Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage.

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Dr Rachel Hann is a Lecturer in Scenography at the University of Surrey, appointed in January 2015 as part of the Guildford School of Acting (GSA). Rachel is currently acting Director of Postgraduate Research for the School of Arts. Her teaching and research focuses on the material cultures of costume, performance design, and architecture. 'Beyond Scenography’ will be Rachel’s first monograph (Routledge, 2017) and provides the first theory of scenography in response to the expanded practices of contemporary theatre and performance. The book argues that the Anglophone appropriation of scenography is critically distinct to the term ‘scenographic’: akin to the difference between performance and performativity, choreography and choreographic. Case studies argue how a scenographic perspective applies to fine art, architecture, propaganda and human geography. Rachel has also published several chapters and peer-reviewed articles on subjects such as costume politics and the performativity of architecture.
In 2013, Rachel co-founded the biennial conference and exhibition Critical Costume (criticalcostume.com). This international research network has since expanded with events in Liverpool (Edge Hill University, 2013), Finland (Aalto University, 2015), and Czech Republic (Prague Quadrennial, 2015). The last biennial conference had 300 delegates with an acceptance rate of 47%. Rachel has led a number of Critical Costume's core activities including co-convening the first event at Edge Hill, co-editorship of a special issue of Scene (Intellect) and writing the organization’s first constitution.
At Surrey, Rachel teaches across degrees in BA Theatre & Performance, BA Dance, and BA Performance Technologies & Production. In 2016/17, she will also lead modules on the MA Creative Practices & Direction. Rachel was nominated for a number of teaching awards at her previous institution and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Rachel is currently lead supervisor for Michelle Man's PhD project on ‘Light-scapes: Light and the dancing body’. Previously, Rachel has supervised PhD projects in digital narrative and memes, as well as the gender and blogging. Rachel welcomes applications for conventional and practice-as-research PhD proposals within the fields of scenography, twentieth-century modernism, costume, practice research, the digital humanities (virtual archaeology), and architecture.
Rachel is a co-editor of a new Practice Research section for Studies in Theatre and Performance, as well as Associate Editor (reviews) for the journal Theatre and Performance Design. Since 2014, Rachel has been an Executive Officer for the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), having previously co-convened the Scenography working group (2010-2013).
Rachel studied for a BA Drama at the University of Hull (2002-2005). At the University of Leeds (2006-2011), Rachel’s PhD thesis employed computer-based 3D visualization as a research method to investigate unrealized utopian theatre architecture (utopiantheatres.co.uk). Before being appointed at Surrey, Rachel was a Lecturer in Performance at Edge Hill University (2010-2015). At Edge Hill, Rachel completed a PGCert in Higher Education.

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