Directing Theatre Fearlessly: Emma Rice In Conversation with Lisa Peck
Known for her bold and innovative approach to theatre, and adapting everything from Shakespeare to Angela Carter, Emma Rice has captivated audiences and critics alike with her transformative productions and creative brilliance.
In this webinar, Emma Rice sits down with Lisa Peck (Theatre Educator & Practitioner) to discuss:
- Directing Practice
- The Creative Process
- Influences & Emma's Career Journey
This webinar is ideal for those teaching or studying directing, contemporary performance, adaptation, feminist theatre-making, puppetry, ensemble work, and music in theatre.
Please note: this webinar is designed for educators and students in schools and universities. We look forward to sharing this content with our academic community! If you are not an educator, we, unfortunately, cannot collect your data for this event.
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Emma Rice
Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Wise Children, and an internationally-respected theatre-maker and director. For Wise Children Emma has adapted and directed the productions Blue Beard, The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales, Wuthering Heights, Bagdad Cafe, Angela Carter’s Wise Children, Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers and Romantics Anonymous.
As Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe (2016/18): Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales).
For the previous 20 years, Emma worked for Kneehigh as an actor, director and Artistic Director and created critically acclaimed productions including The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Tristan & Yseult, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Wild Bride, The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Cymbeline (in association with RSC), A Matter of Life and Death (in association with National Theatre), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre); Brief Encounter (in association with David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Productions); Don John (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic); Wah! Wah! Girls (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages); Steptoe and Son and the West End production of Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Emma received the Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre award at the 2019 UK Theatre Awards.
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Lisa Peck
Lisa Peck is a theatre-maker and teacher who has worked in education for over thirty years. She is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Practice at the University of Sussex and Associate Tutor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her research interests include: actor training, theatre-making pedagogies, women in theatre, critical pedagogies and site-based performance.
Lisa has published chapters and articles in a number of books and journals. She recently co-edited Critical Acting Pedagogies: Intersectional Approaches, published by Routledge in 2024. Emma Rice's Feminist Acts of Love was published by Cambridge Elements in 2023. Act as a Feminist: Towards a Critical Acting Pedagogy, was published by Routledge in 2021.
She is Associate Editor for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training where she curates an open access blog on Critical Pedagogy and sits on the Advisory Board for Digital Theatre Plus.