Come what may the house enables us to say: I will be an inhabitant of the world, in spite of the world.1 This essay presents a piece of performance research that brought together a theatre-maker/performer and a theatre researcher to explore the relationships between theatre and poverty. Our collaboration was just one part of a broader research project,…
Articles by Jenny Hughes
Jenny Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester, and currently working on a research project called ‘Poor theatres: a critical exploration of theatre, performance and economic precarity’ (www.manchester.ac.uk/poortheatres) funded by the AHRC. Her publications include a monograph, Performance in a time of terror (2011) and a co-authored book (with James Thompson and Michael Balfour), Performance in Place of War (2009).