Heather Lilley
Courses
Level 1: Performance and Theory, and Ideas in Practice
Level 2: Devising: Community Theatres and Physical Theatres
Level 3: Community Project, and Research in Practice
Course Tutor
Making Theatre, Early Stages, Professional Practice, Literature Culture and Criticism, Poetry and Drama, Twentieth Century Actor Training, and Theatre Studies and Drama Project.
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Tel: 020 8331 8953
Email: h.l.lilley@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 336
Office Hours
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Performance Projects at
Applied Theatre Reminiscence Project for 30 level 2 Drama students to work in collaboration with Pam Schweitzer and elders from Woolwich. The project culminated in performances for delegates of the Reminiscence Theatre network as part of their international conference in 2008
New Writing Productions for Drama and Creative Writing students and tutors to collaborate to stage First Shorts with Soho Theatre in 2007 and 2008
Medieval Mystery Plays staged annually from 2006-2009 with up to 80 level 1 students. These productions have included a studio production, an outdoor festival on the Maritime Campus, a site-specific promenade performance and a recreation of the pageant wagon model using platform stages
Graduate Theatre Company ‘Talking Props’ created and a Level 3 Drama Project production of East transferred to Greenwich Playhouse
Community Theatre Placements for 50 students a year across Levels 2 and 3. Placement providers and partners include GLYPT, EEA and London Bubble, with students working in youth theatres, in drama therapy and educational contexts, with ex-offenders and young offenders, with the elderly on creating reminiscence theatre, and internationally with charities in
Research Interests and Publications
Research interests include: Theatre and Community; Applied Drama; Audience Reception, Participatory Performance Practices and Contemporary Devised Theatre.
PhD ‘Vital Contact: Community and Negotiations of Audience Performance Relationships in the Theatre of Cartoon de Salvo, Kneehigh Theatre and Northern Stage (2000 to 2005)’
‘Vital Contact: Creating Interpretive Communities in the Moment of Theatrical Reception’ for About Performance #10, Audiencing: The Work of the Spectator in Live Performance, June 2010.