Posting some of my Edinburgh reviews, originally published by Exeunt. Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber their top career choice. See-Through, created and performed by Claire Gaydon, is a smart, well-crafted, funny solo show, examining the costs of living your life in the public eye. Gaydon spends most of the performance with her back … Continue reading Review: See-through
Review: SPARKS
Posting a few of my Edinburgh reviews, originally published by Exeunt. Some shows feel too beautiful to write about. SPARKS feels like one of those shows. Fumbling for words, I feel like a butterfly collector trying not to crush the wings of my specimen as attempt to pinion it to a board. I say I … Continue reading Review: SPARKS
Review: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
Posting a few of my Edinburgh fringe reviews, originally published by Exeunt. ekphrasis noun. the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise In a sense all theatre reviewing is a form ekphrasis, with all the challenges and slipperiness of trying to pin down the visual into words (like pinioning a butterfly’s … Continue reading Review: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
Ten tips for public engagement
Last week I attended the Public Engagement with Research Summer School at TORCH (the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities). The weeklong series of workshops and talks on how to engage people beyond the academy with academic research was really fun and informative. I came away with lots of ideas and a toolkit of practical … Continue reading Ten tips for public engagement
How to get your first journal article published
(I wrote this piece for Taylor & Francis Author Services blog. Hopefully it's helpful!) In 2016, I was surprised and delighted to win the Theatre and Performance Research Association postgraduate essay prize for my essay, ‘Narrative dysfunction in The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh and On Raftery’s Hill by Marina Carr’, about storytelling in contemporary … Continue reading How to get your first journal article published
Dr Hannah Greenstreet 