• Lecturer in Theatre Studies (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413305162
email: Minty.Donald@glasgow.ac.uk

Office hours: Tuesday 12-1pm

Research Interests

My research is primarily, but not exclusively, practice-led. My main areas of interest are site-orientated and critical spatial practices, performance practices within a visual arts context, performance and digital media, contemporary scenography and theatre space/architecture.

Biography

I combine my work as a lecturer in Theatre Studies with my practice as an artist.
From 2005-2008 I was an AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Glasgow School of Art.
I have also worked extensively as a scenographer with companies including the National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Contemporary Dance, Contact (Manchester), Dundee Rep, 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) the Traverse (Edinburgh) and the Tron (Glasgow).

Research Projects

My current research is concerned with the urban river and performance. It has a dual focus in that it investigates the way in which urban rivers might be thought of as performing, and reflects on performances which have taken place in response to urban waterways. The research uses practice as a primary methodology to consider the role of the urban river in shaping conceptions of contemporary cities. To date, this research has concentrated on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

• 2011 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
• 2011 Public Art Commission, Merchant City, Glasgow
• 2010 International Network of Contemporary Performing Arts Commission
• 2009 Scottish Arts Council Visual Arts Research and Development Award
• 2005-2008 AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

I welcome PhD applications from students in the area of contemporary performance, and particularly those interested in site-based or critical spatial practice, performance within a visual arts context and practice-based research.

Current  and recently-graduated PG students:

• Cassandra Rutherford: ‘Building Theatres /Theatre Buildings: Reinventing Mull Theatre’
• Tara Beall: ‘From Transport to Travel: Visitor Agency in a 21st Century Museum of Transport’
• David Overend: ‘Underneath the Arches: Developing a Relational Performance Aesthetic in Response to a Specific Cultural Site’
• Victoria Payton: ‘The Rules and Structures of Participation’

• Reading the Stage (Level 1)
• Modernism to Postmodernism (Level 2)
• Space, Place and Performance (Honours)
• Capturing Liveness: Theatre, Performance and Documentation (Honours)
• Dissertations (Honours)
• Work Placement (Senior Honours)
• Work Placement (M Litt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
• Debating Dramaturgy 2 (M Litt Playwriting and Dramaturgy)
• Research Methods (PGT and PGR)

Administration

• Convener of Practice
• Convener of Practices, Processes, Professions talks series

External Responsibilities

• External Examiner, University of Leeds
• Board Member, Glasgow Sculpture Studios
• Member of Editorial-Curatorial Board Experiences and Intensities, University of Winchester Press

Other Publications/Forthcoming Publications

‘The Urban River and Site-Specific Performance’, Contemporary Theatre Review special issue on site-specificity and mobility, publication due 2012
Urban Boreholes, Public Art commission for Merchant City, Glasgow
High-Slack-Low-Slack-High site-orientated performance for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, April/May 2012