Dr Richard Talbot

Programme Leader HND Performance & Media Practices

Office Times

Monday 1.00pm-2.00pm

Tuesday

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Thursday 1.00pm-2.00pm

Friday

Biography

I joined the University of Salford in 2010 as a Lecturer in Performance, with a background in professional Performance Practice.  I am Programme Leader for the HND Performance and Media Practices.

Other responsibilities including devising induction performances for new students; writing a new MA in Performance to open in 2014; and working on Public Engagement projects, such as a partnership on the digital archive and performance with the Bridgend Community Arts Centre, Bollington, funded by the Heritage Lottery Funded, as part of an AHRC Connected Communities project.

I have been External Evaluator for the new degree in Drama at Christchurch University, Canterbury.

Teaching

My academic interests focus on designing and delivering live, recorded and mixed media performance projects for the new HND Performance & Media Practices, and teaching Clowning, The Avant-Garde, Physical & Dance Theatre Practitioners and Comedy Performance Techniques on BA (Hons) Performance. I am supervising PhDs in Comedy and the North, and Women and Comedy. I also supervise second and third year Theatre Projects and final year Practical Research Projects. I have been involved in initiatives between Nursing and Performance disciplines, and have used pedagogic “personae” to establish surprising and playful encounters with students. I have led performance workshops at many universities (recently Manchester, Kingston and Brunel) and for professional groups, recently for The National Trust and the National Museum of Australia, Melbourne, and have worked with young people’s performance companies including Bare Essentials and The Little Herberts

Research Interests

My professional background is in comical, immersive and participatory strategies for experimental performance in community, heritage and education contexts. My AHRC-funded PhD investigated the figure of the clown and laughter and I continue to develop this, currently through close involvement with ClownLab, Manchester and Barnaby King (USA). A practice-as-research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, investigated memories of compulsory school sport and contrasting notions of "discipline" in performance. A Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Scholarship has recently allowed me to engage in interdisciplinary research into notions and ethics of performing care between the Performance Directorate and the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Salford.

Qualifications and Memberships

BA (Hons) Japanese Studies, First Class (Sheffield,1991);

MA Theatre Studies with Distinction (Leeds, 1994);

Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice (Nottingham Trent, 2005);

PhD Drama, Theatre & Performance (Roehampton, 2009).

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice and Research (Salford,2011).

Fellow Higher Education Academy (2011).

 

Artistic Director, Triangle Theatre UK

International Society for the Study of Narrative

Performance Studies international

Associate Artist Pantheatre, France

Publications

2013 Immersion for me/Immersion for you: dialogic narrative and immersive performance practices. (International Conference on Narrative, Manchester, United Kingdom, June.)

2010. Doctors & Nurses: Learning to Act Like a Nurse in a Theatre of High Fidelity Simulation (TaPRA - Theatre and Performance Research Association, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom, September).

2010. "Knickers and Vests: Parody, Failure, Embarrassment and the Olympics." Conference Paper. Playing for Laughs: Comic Economies. De Montford University, Leicester. 6th February.

Andrews, N and Talbot, R. (2010) Triangle's Immersive Museum Theatre:performativity, historical interpretation and research-in-role. In Jackson, A and Kidd, J (Eds). Performing Heritage: research, practice and development in museum theatre and live interpretation. Manchester, MUP.

Talbot, R and Waterfield, C. (2008) Triangle's Work in Times of War. DVD-Rom.

Performance papers

2012 Ugly Scenes: a durational shift. (Performance Studies international, Leeds, United Kingdom, June).

2012 Hilary & Bernard (STUDIO MATEJKA: The Human/Body as a Cultural Actor, Digital Performance Lab, MediaCity UK, University of Salford, United Kingdom, June).

2012 The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Northern Lapland (working title) Ridiculusmus (development workshops)

2011 Total Football, Ridiculusmus (National Theatre of Scotland/The Barbican) (development).

2010. ‘Knickers & Vests: parody, failure, embarrassment and the Olympics.’, panel with Lucy Amsden, and Maggie Irving, Playing For Laughs, De Montford University, Leicester, 6 February.

2009. ‘Knickers & Vests - Embarrassment, Painful Memories and Participatory Performance’. Painstaking Performances, panel with Ed Scheer and Milija Gluhovic, , Misperformance, Misfitting, Misfiring, PSi 13, New York University, 8th –11th November.

External Links

Talbot, R. (2008) The Clown Who Lost His Memory: Multiple Faces of the Clown in Practice and Theory Online. [www.ninaandfrederick.co.uk/pollard accessed 31 Jan 2013].

Triangle Theatre Company. Website. Online. [www.triangletheatre.co.uk accessed 31 Jan 2013].