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Performing site-specific theatre : politics, place, practice
'Performing Site-Specific Theatre' turns a critical eye to the increasingly popular form of site-specific performance. By re-assessing this contemporary practice, the book investigates the nature of the relationship between 'site' and 'performance.' Site-specific performance operates differently from performance that takes place within a theatre venue because it seeks to match form and content (and place and space) more finely than does theatre that takes place inside conventional venues. Yet the form also encourages an investigation of how we might understand 'site' as less fixed or less specifically geographical; it broadens the types of relevant 'spaces' we might consider. The form also enables us to address a range of performative issues, from the development of site-specific 'soundscapes' to the role of the spectator in site-specific performance.
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A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases
Periodic revisions of the international classification of diseases (ICD) ensure that the classification reflects new practices and knowledge; however, this complicates retrospective research as diagnoses are coded in different versions. For longitudinal disease trajectory studies, a crosswalk is an essential tool and a comprehensive mapping between ICD-8 and ICD-10 has until now been lacking. In this study, we map all ICD-8 morbidity codes to ICD-10 in the expanded Danish ICD version. We mapped ICD-8 codes to ICD-10, using a many-to-one system inspired by general equivalence mappings such that each ICD-8 code maps to a single ICD-10 code. Each ICD-8 code was manually and unidirectionally mapped to a single ICD-10 code based on medical setting and context. Each match was assigned a score (1 of 4 levels) reflecting the quality of the match and, if applicable, a “flag” signalling choices made in the mapping. We provide the first complete mapping of the 8596 ICD-8 morbidity codes to ICD-10 codes. All Danish ICD-8 codes representing diseases were mapped and 5106 (59.4%) achieved the highest consistency score. Only 334 (3.9%) of the ICD-8 codes received the lowest mapping consistency score. The mapping provides a scaffold for translation of ICD-8 to ICD-10, which enable longitudinal disease studies back to and 1969 in Denmark and to 1965 internationally with further adaption.
Journal Article
Portrayals of Trauma in Irish and Polish Literature as Seen in the Myth of the Loss of Eden
This thesis examines the similarities and differences in the portrayals of trauma in Irish and Polish literature to propose that the works of Zbigniew Herbert, a Polish poet, should be viewed through the postcolonial lens in a similar manner Irish literature is. The first chapter defines and delineates Irish trauma as a continuous and pervading experience that has impacted not only the direct participants of the Great Famine and the English oppression but also the next generations. I analyze Marina Carr’s play By the Bog of Cats and Mary Costello’s novel Academy Street to emphasize how deeply trauma is entrenched in the consciousness of their modern-day characters, and how it still affects their lives.In a similar vein, the Polish chapter scrutinizes the depictions of trauma in Herbert’s three poems “Preliminary Investigation of an Angel”, “Report from the Besieged City”, and “The Envoy of Mr. Cogito” to showcase Polish trauma as a consequence of Poland’s challenging past. Poland’s loss of sovereignty, very much like Ireland’s, impacted Polish national and individual identity. Through a close reading of the works by Marina Carr, Mary Costello, and Zbigniew Herbert, I propose that these authors allude to the myth of the lost Eden to depict the significance of endured trauma as a formative and lingering experience that informs their nations’ and individuals’ consciousness and as such should be classified as postcolonial literature.
Dissertation
Farmers, dramas and disasters
\"We're not very good at science here. Because we're all girls. I wouldn't try for vet school if I were you.\" That was in the early 1980s. Inconceivable now. In fact, some years ago Cambridge Veterinary School had a 100% female intake.
Trade Publication Article
Staging and Citing Gendered Meanings : a Practice-Based Study of Representational Strategies in Live and Mediated Performance
My argument is that gender visibility in live and mediated performance can be enhanced by the use of the dramaturgical toolkit. The thesis as a whole offers a body of work and a method for recontextualising that work, and for reframing it in multimedia format. The visual and written texts on the DVD-Rom give equal weight to the performance and written research comprising this submission. Building upon that set of materials and meanings, but leaving deliberate gaps and spaces for debate and interpretation between them as well, I have attempted to offer a useful but also a flexible toolkit for use by future practitioners and scholars. Method: Taking as my case study Di's Midsummer Night Party, a site-based devised performance (this collaboration in 2000 was created with a scenographer, five professional actors and 20 extras, performed over five nights in an 18th-century house), I design and theorise a dramaturgical toolkit. The theoretical base is developed from established theoretical concerns, feminist performance theory and social semiotics to analyse an original contemporary performance work. Original contribution: The dramaturgical toolkit is designed to be used by artists, students and academics. My analytical tool is being used in teaching and is valuable to others who want to teach/research gender representation in live and mediated performance. Tests during development and subsequently have taken place with performance design and fashion students at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where the kit encouraged the articulation and analysis of student work. The dramaturgical toolkit helps the facilitator to push students towards articulation and analysis of \"bite-sized\" bits that are distilled enough to be clear, and therefore useful for making and analysing performance. This process of distillation helps artists and students to focus down and to reach new levels of understanding.
Dissertation
Peter Bond Locating Performance: Performance Related Text London: Light More Light, 2003. 79 p. £6.00. ISBN: 0-9543802-0-7
The conclusions are always thought-provoking, even when they are rather contentious. [...]Tartuffe is described as a reworking of the farce staple of the defeat of a cramped and jealous husband by a younger and more attractive lover, and McCarthy posits that the rst three-act version would have ended with Tartuffe and a compliant Elmire undisturbed in their affair. On occasion, the authors seeming lack of close familiarity with sources and recent critical work in the eld leads to some unfortunate slips. [...]a misinterpretation of documents relating to the remodelling of the Palais-Royal elicits a strange hypothesis as to the design of that theatre. [...]in a chapter on non-western drama, Japan is discussed too briey and in relation only to the usual aspects of Noh and Kabuki; and Iraq is given one line. [...]the book gives more space to, and is more interested in, general histories and contexts than the activity of reading.
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