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Laurence Sullivan

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I studied Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Shakespeare and Theatre at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and in 2023 I completed my PhD in the Medical Humanities at Northumbria University, exploring literary portrayals of women's domestic medicine during the eighteenth century. I became inspired to start writing during my university studies, after being immersed in all forms of literature from across the globe and enjoying every moment of it. Since then, I've found inspiration in some of my favourite writers, such as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Angela Carter and Tennessee Williams. Personally, though, I enjoy writing literary fiction, thrillers, and horror.

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Peter Finkle: Introducing the ‘Playwrights Walk’ – Ashland News – Community-Supported, NonProfit News

The “Playwrights Walk,” a new series of art installations, will bring history to the streets Ashlanders walk. Initially a dozen plaques, and eventually many more, the installation will celebrate the rich and dynamic theater culture in and around Ashland. Source: Peter Finkle: Introducing the ‘Playwrights Walk’ – Ashland News – Community-Supported, NonProfit News

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Women’s Work Festival: I believe her (walking tour)

As part of Women’s Work 2022, join us as we walk through the streets of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter together to experience the beautiful and hard hitting audio journey ‘I Believe Her.’* After the 30 min audio piece we will end at The Oh Yeah Centre where we will have a discussion about night time safety,

Andrew Stuck
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Theatre Walks

Theatre doors are no longer sealed nowadays and performance often ventures outside. It embraces walking as a “theatrical scenario” and goes in quest of new, mobile, non-material or outdoor spatialities to replace or amplify the conventional stage. Site-specific and site-generic theatre events, walking performances, audio-guided drama, mobile theatre(s) and performance interventions, all flesh a theatre

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Brave Bold Drama

We are a theatre & community arts company, based in the south of the UK. We make sound walks often with community members, and often in Bristol postcodes that are perceived by many as being 'nothing special.'


pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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