This is the second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artists engages with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.

Each chapter focuses on an individual or group’s mode of working and methodological practice of performance across a range of modes, disciplines and media – from community opera to online queer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, from community art projects in schools to community writing projects in transport interchanges, the performers, writers and creators represented here all engage and grapple with contemporary performance as a situated practice and as a problematic.

The personal perspective of each performer – directors, librettists, producers, writers, performers – is explicitly located in a community and the book offers a series of case studies detailing socially engaged work that aligns with concepts of performance and community.

About the Authors

Dr Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton where she is a course leader on the creative writing MA and the English literature and creative writing BA. Her work is on autoethnography, communities of practice and developing confidence with creative work and academic life.

Kate Aughterson is lecturer in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century literature at the University of Manchester. She is author of Renaissance Woman (Routledge, 1995), The English Renaissance: An Anthology (Routledge, 1998), John Webster: The Plays (Palgrave, 2000), Aphra Behn: The Comedies (Palgrave, 2003), Shakespeare: The Late Plays (Palgrave, 2013); co-edited two volumes of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice on place-based writing; co-authored Shakespeare and Gender (Bloomsbury, 2021);Women’s Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary (Palgrave, 2021); and Women Experimenting in Theatre (Palgrave 2024) and co-edited Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness (Palgrave, 2018). She has contributed entries on early modern women writers for the DNB, and written articles on feminist utopian writing, the rhetoric of plain style and gender, gender and drama in the early modern period and Shakespeare’s late soliloquies.

Contact: Department of English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing; University of Manchester; Oxford Road; Manchester; M13 9PL.

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