Dr Harry Derbyshire
Courses
Culture, Theory and Context: Drama
Literary Forms of Representation
Understanding Text Through Peformance
Lecturer in Drama and Programme Leader for BA Hons English
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 9953
Email: h.g.derbyshire@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 234
Office Hours
Monday 10am – 1pm
Thursday 2 - 4pm
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in English and Theatre Studies - University of Warwick
MA in English Literature - University of Warwick
PhD in English Literature - King's College, London
The reception of Harold Pinter's later work and his status as a cultural figure.
Contemporary British theatre, including the work of Sarah Kane and Roy Williams.
Politics, human rights and verbatim testimony on the contemporary British stage.
Harry is also engaged in original writing for the theatre.
Book Chapters
'Pinter as Celebrity' in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter -revised version to be published in the book's second edition (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
'Entries on: Brendan Behan, Edward Bond, Trevor Griffiths, John McGrath, John Osborne, David Storey, Arnold Wesker, John Whiting' in The Continuum Encyclopaeida of British Literature 2003
Internet publication
'Stamping Ground: London as Disputed Territory in the plays of Harold Pinter' in Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London Volume 4 (2), September 2006
http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2006/derbyshire.html
Journal articles
'Peforming Injustice: Human Rights and Verbatim Theatre' (co-authored with Dr Loveday Hodson) in Law and Humanities, December 2008
'Pinter and Style' in Brand issue 2 (Autumn/Winter 2008)
'The Culture of New Writing' in the Backpages of Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 18 (1)
Roy Williams: Representing Multicultural Britain in Fallout' in Modern Drama Volume 50 (3)
Performances
As writer:
Refrain, Battersea Arts Centre, London, October 2003 and February 2004
Sob Stories, Battersea Arts Centre, February and June 2002
As dramaturg:
The Duchess of Suffolk, Globe Theatre Education, December 2001
The Fire Raisers, Battersea Arts Centre, June 2001
As director:
NOT Stalking David Tennant, AKA Having It All, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008
Hurt Me (Ideally by Punching Me in the Face), Edinburge Fringe Festival 1996