Dr Marianne Sharp 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Marianne.Sharp@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0)1962 827190 

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Expertise

Contemporary theatre; autobiography and performance; women and theatre

Publications

‘Acting Ethically? Subjectivity and the Actress in Geddy Aniksdal’s No Doctor for the Dead.’ Contemporary Theatre Review 18.3 (August 2008), ‘Beyond Postmodernisms’ special edition.
December 2009, submitted my Practice-as-Research PhD thesis: Being a Woman Twice: Knowledge, Subjectivity and the Autonomous Actress, Royal Holloway College, University of London (viva due early 2010).

Practice-as-Research Projects include:
2009-2010 (current) The People Who Dreamed they Were Me,. directorial and documentation collaboration with Dr Anna Fenemore (University of Leeds) on solo experimental theatre piece exploring ‘biographical’ ways of performing the self, with Fenemore’s Manchester-based company Pigeon Theatre. Supported by Arts Council England.
Nora and I (2008-09, ongoing), solo devised theatre piece exploring the relationship between acting and autobiography in response to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England; University of Winchester and Theatre Royal Winchester.
Director (2005): Our Country’s Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Playing for Time Theatre Company at HMP West Hill Winchester (cast of prisoners from Winchester prison and undergraduates from University of Winchester); supported by Arts Council of England and Ernest Cook Trust; public performances (x5); Producer: Annie McKean.
Juliet’s Dream III (2003). Devised/physical theatre project exploring performer identity in response to Romeo and Juliet. Funded by £5000 HEIF grant through University of Winchester. Short national tour of University theatre departments.

Conference Papers include:
‘Democratically Naked Hanky Panky with Ursula Martinez’, Performance, Identity and Community working group, TaPRA Annual Conference, Portsmouth University, September 2009.
‘Conceptualising Performer Intuition’, 20th-21st Century Performer Training Group, TaPRA Annual Conference, Birmingham University, September 2007.
‘Writing Strangers and Sel/f/ves: the actress as foreigner within and without her own words’, Women’s Writing for Performance International Symposium, Lancaster University, April 2006.
‘INSecure Institutions: Prison Theatre: subversive or normative activity?’, joint paper and presentation with Annie McKean, at Performance and Possibility Conference, Liverpool Hope University, September 2005.
‘Framing Experience: Postfeminist Practice/Theory & Juliet's Dream III’, at Interdisciplinary Landscapes: Postfeminist Practices in the Arts, University College Northampton, September 2004.
‘Between Eloquence and Articulacy’, presenter with Jackie Smart at Virtuosity and Performance Mastery Symposium, Middlesex University, June 2003.

Research Interests

Devised theatre (including physical theatre ensemble practices; devising and text); autobiography, subjectivity and performance; directing/performer training; feminisms and theatre; contemporary theatre.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA, Performance, Identity, Community Working Group).
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR, Performance-as-Research working group)