Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 02/07/2025media.tenor.coma woman with a fake mustache is holding a wooden stick and says it 's very goodALT: a woman with a fake mustache is holding a wooden stick and says it 's very good 030
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025tanasa first examines John Partridge - he claims to be writing for women but the images and letters are to men… and the book isn’t practical to use #BritGrad2025 020
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Next up Bianca Tanasa on early modern cook books… #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Camponovo notes that appetite is never for love but for sexual lust #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Moving onto Angelo’s sexual appetites and Isabella’s edible body #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Camponovo argues that the language to describe the brothel and prison mirror the style of early modern cook books. Wider the prisoners are linked to over consumption of food and drink. #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Camponovo deep dives into food euphemisms and the ban on brothels… parallels between food and sexually available bodies. Prunes in windows stood in brothels - so Pompey’s pregnant wife’s need for prunes becomes sexual #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025The content warning is again Measure for Measure #Britgrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025After lunch it is food and sex… up first Simone Camponovo #Britgrad2025 140
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Broadribb wants to be clear that reviews are allocated first come first serve… rather than on experience! #BritGrad2025 020
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Questions being fielded … yes photos please where possible (high quality from the press office)… foreign language Yes please… #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025A short pause as we read Simone Camponovo’s excellent review of Malfi…media.tenor.coma man in a white shirt is reading a book in a bathroom with a checkered wallALT: a man in a white shirt is reading a book in a bathroom with a checkered wall 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Broadribb wants to stress he doesn’t value fidelity… analyse the performance for what it was not against some wider criteria #BridGrad2025media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with the words my undying fidelity below himALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words my undying fidelity below him 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Oh wait… I have now twice misunderstood “Lady m was chilling” I was imagining pina colada and Netflix rather than scary! #BritGrad2025media.tenor.coma little girl wearing sunglasses sits in a chair holding a bottle of orange juiceALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses sits in a chair holding a bottle of orange juice 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Also the reader of a ShaxBull know the plots of Shakespeare’s plays! Think Belle not Gaston #BritGrad2025media.tenor.coma cartoon of a man holding a book next to a woman who says how can you read this there 's no pictures !ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a book next to a woman who says how can you read this there 's no pictures ! 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Balance description and critical interrogation … the description should serve the analysis… #BritGrad2025media.tenor.coma woman says it 's a balance in front of a pinkvilla signALT: a woman says it 's a balance in front of a pinkvilla sign 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Too top… avoid bland! Explore and analyse… WHY? #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Broadribb stresses he is keen to work with authors and support them in the rewrites… if you are happy to work on a review he is happy to work with you. #BritGrad2025 130
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Broadribb and Williams want to define performance widely … if you think it’s a performance and want to review it, pitch it! #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Williams and Broadribb note that performance and performance review is an open field… there is no correct way to perform any play so the reviewers job is to take each performance on its own merits… #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Broadribb and Williams ask us to think about what we have found useful in published performance reviews… #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Up next a publishing workshop with @benbroadribb.bsky.social and @norajw.bsky.social for @shaxbull.bsky.social #BritGrad2025 190
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025She recommends that we learn texts - not rote learning but emotional and embodied experiential learning. #BritGrad2025 000
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Granger cites @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and his approach to research with innovation. #BritGrad2025 210
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025She also recommends starting commonplacing for essays … start your reading with ten thematic headings then end up with material under those themes as you read. #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Granger advocates for keeping a notebook with you with an easy thematic index… and to spend 5 mins a day archiving and compiling the content you have consumed. #Britgrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Granger promotes the use of commonplace books … collecting ideas and thoughts for later … #britgrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Granger asks us to look at things differently as we study and research… but notes it’s harder for early career researchers to be risky and quirky … we can however use play in our methods #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Heading into day three of #BritGrad2025 up first Ruby Granger… 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Turning to embedded criticism - Kirwan warns against the merging of dramaturg and embedded critic… #BritGrad2025 000
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan deep dives into the labor made visual in ASC productions of @reduced.bsky.social complete works abridged - in summary the idea that the three actors draw on the performance history of the play and their own real world work. #BritGrad2025 210
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan focuses on the working rendered visible in Emma Rice’s dream at the globe that framed the mechanicals as stewards. #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan notes that much of the work of theatre is designed to be invisible - you don’t see the work unless it goes wrong. #BritGrad2025 120
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Competence in Shakespeare is a small part of a competence in reviewing Shakespeare … #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan cites Dobson’s thoughts on reviewers as uniformed theatre goers… Kirwan would extend this to all Shakespeare not just Shakespeare in a foreign language. #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan cites Wells - some qualification is needed to be a reviewer rather than a mere commentator - Kirwan is clear there is a need for literacy, an understanding of the text and context and performance history…. But he would add a need to know semiotics of stage #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Kirwan examines Alan Armstrong shaxbull article that parodies academic reviews. #BritGrad2025 110
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025It’s the final plenary of the day with @drpetekirwan.bsky.social zooming in…. Following Paige Calvert’s excellent paper … does puppet Pete’s presence make this a split role? 170
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Calvert expertly balances the pros and cons of splitting and doubling - ultimately concluding in this Pericles the impact was positive and aided comprehension. #BritGrad2025 020
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025@edelsemple.bsky.social making an unexpected appearance … say Pericles thrice and there she is! #BritGrad2025 131
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The performance split role Gower… first with priestesses then the wider ensemble #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Indeed … i do tend to err on the side of more warnings are better. 010
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Calvert takes on Pericles in the 2015 Stratford Festival … #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025But what is the impact dramaturgically? #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025BUT WHY asks Calvert … economic efficiency - work backwards from the scene that physically needs the most actors and then double cast for the excess #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Split role performing … when a single role is split between two or more actors #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Calvert starts with definitions: Doubling - the playing of two or more parts (wearing a fun hat perhaps) #BritGrad2025 100
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Up next Paige Calvert on choric casting: doubling in performance #BritGrad2025 100
