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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Wonderful to have launched the Romanian translation of #BeyondScenography at Universitatea de Arte Târgu Mures and the Studio International Theatre Festival. Huge thanks and appreciation to Cosmin Matei and Cristian Rusu for making it happen and to Diana Nicoleta Muresan for the translation.

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My school is looking to appoint a new Head! Come and be our Head of the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries at Northumbria University. Details here: work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Trans Performance Now Festival 27-29th June 2025 Live Theatre, Newcastle (NE1 3DQ) A celebration of trans-led UK theatre and performance practices hosted in collaboration with Northumbria University, Live Theatre and Curious Arts. Sign up here: www.live.org.uk/whats-on/tra...

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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This week's Orlando research event sees Charli and Laurie in-conversation with the fantastic Dr Rachel Hann (@rachelhann.bsky.social) to discuss trans dramaturgy and embodiment. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/staging-tr... Join us on Friday, 9 May, at 5pm in the Faculty of English.

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Staging Transfeminine Embodiment - piss/CARNATION & Dr Rachel Hann

In this 'in-conversation' event, piss/CARNATION discuss bringing trans femme-bodies to the stage with Dr Rachel Hann (Northumbria U).

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David Shearing @davidshearing.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For 2 years, I’ve been an artist mentor for Future Lab, a European network of 12 venues + 14 artists collaborating to reimagine how theatre engages communities. Loved seeing the results in Luxembourg this weekend! futurelaboratory.eu

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Can bad costumes do good things? This is the title of a brief afterword I've written for Susan Marshall's new book Insubordinate Costume. Her book explores scenographic costumes in historical and contemporary art practices. Go check it out www.rachelhann.com/publications...

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Can bad costumes do good things? — Dr Rachel Hann

... bad costumes can reveal the work of costume that may have otherwise been unseen or dismissed as frivolous. Bad costumes can offer a method for investigating how costumes are judged, understood, an...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“It rather assumes that I am doing my role in spite of my undergraduate, masters and PhD in drama, rather than because of it. I’m clear it is because of it.” 👏👏🙌

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’m currently writing a book titled ‘Staging Transness’. Overall aim is to map trans* & nonbinary ways of making theatre/performance through interviews and case study analysis. Open to recommendations of interesting examples (I’ve already got a lot, but always nice to hear about new stuff).

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My book #BeyondScenography featured a manifesto where each line was originally written as tweets to sum up each chapter. Feels fitting to reshare here. Retrospectively it’s been referenced as the ‘Scenographics Manifesto’. I’ll note each below as well. 💜🦋🧐

Scenographics irritate the disciplined orders of world.
A scenography of orientation is a scenography of feeling.
Skenographia has many legacies.
Scenography has exceeded the scenographer.
Scenography is not set; scenography happens.
There are no stages without scenographics.
While all scenography is scenographic, not all that is scenographic is scenography.
Whereas slow architecture pertains to monumentality, fast architecture is scenographic.
Scenographics score acts of worlding.
Image from:
Bluebeard's Castle, 2010
Frankfurt Opera
Regie (Direction): Barrie Kosky
Bühne und Kostüme (Stage and Costume): Katrin Lea Tag
Lichtgestaltung (Lighting design): Joachim Klein
Photograph: Monika Rittershaus
Text from:
'Scenographics Manifesto' by Rachel Hann in Beyond Scenography (Routledge, 2019)

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

How is a feeling of world produced through staged material cultures? What if 'empty space' is not the starting point for scenography? These questions drive my new article 'Pluriversal scenographics and staging world feelings' in Cultural Geographies. And Open access too! doi.org/10.1177/1474...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

What does scenography offer cultural geography? This was the starting point for my article ‘On Atmospherics’. I’m in the midst of finalising a book that expands upon this question. Not sure if scenography should be in the main title yet. But I’ll get there! journals.openedition.org/ambiances/4172

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On Atmospherics: Staging Stormzy and nonbinary thinking

In the summer of 2019, the UK Grime artist Stormzy became the first Black British performer to headline the Glastonbury Festival. Influenced by American hip-hop and the ‘UK Garage’ scene of the la...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

From pleasure activism to performance afterlifes, TaPRA 2024 at Northumbria University has something for you! The CfPs for our 13 working groups and TaPRA Gallery are now available: 4-6 Sept 2024. Deadline for proposals 10 April 2024. tapra.org/current/

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2024 conference – TaPRA

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

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On Atmospherics: Staging Stormzy and nonbinary thinking

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I 💜 word clouds. Final article edit I've been working on for the last 3 years. Changed from climate crisis scenographics to pluriversal scenographics & world feelings. It is also an attempt to engage more directly with cultural geography. You got to hussle these days ...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I’m writing briefly about enacting ‘the void’ in theatre. I’ve got Svoboda talking about a fear of looking into ‘dark space’ at the start of designing a show. Grotowski / Brook also (but looking for designers). I’ve also got critiques of the ‘Black Box’ (Hannah, Wiles). Any more on void space?

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I’ll play. - what does the second world in ‘it matters what worlds world worlds’ mean for scenography? - what ever happened to theatrics as a critical framework?

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

My cat family member doesn’t seem to want me to make the final edits on this article …

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Important info here on the focus on widening participation, and while improvements noted, there remains significant gaps.

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

What do costumes do? My chapter 'Costume Scenographics' is now available as a pre-publication version included in the limited-run book Costume Agency by Christina Lindgren and Sodja Lotker. www.rachelhann.com/publications...

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Costume Scenographics — Dr Rachel Hann

What do costumes do? I ask this question with two positions in mind. First, I am interested in how costumes produce a sense of atmosphere, occasion, or event. Second, I propose that costuming as a s...

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Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Now I feel I’ve got to catch everyone up on what I haven’t been posting! Nice to feel able to post again.

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