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CHRISTINE ROBERTS
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Christine Roberts works as a Senior Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Plymouth, England. She is also a founder member of the Theatre company Lusty Juventus. She has been writing professionally since 1996 and has had four of her plays performed nationally. In addition to this, she has also writtten for international journals and conferences on themes relating to Theatre and politics. Ceremonial Kisses was the first play performed by Lusty Juventus and was selected by the Times as one of the highlights of the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival; the company later performed this play in London, Bristol and Exeter. Shading the Crime was the second of her plays for Lusty Juventus and was later selected to open the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford in a production by Ellie Parker (1998). Other plays include the Maternal Cloister which was commissioned by Theatre Carnivalesque and was first performed as a rehearsed reading by Lusty Juventus in Brazil. Her first play, Mangled was published by Minerva Press in 1997.
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(M)other Bugaboo Ceremonial Kisses Citizens Daily Dismissals Kicking District, The Mangled Maternal Cloister, The Shading the Crime(M)other
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Top of PageBugaboo
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Off Cut Festival, Old Red Lion Theatre, London
01 Oct 2009
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Top of PageCeremonial Kisses
explores the effect indoctrination and guilt on have on the development of a personality. Within the play we experience the increasing torment of the main character/Master of Ceremonies through the actions and presence of the Chorus/Choir.
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part of Tormented Minds
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Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Devon, Uk
1996
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Physical theatre Piece
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Top of PageCitizens
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Top of PageDaily Dismissals
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Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY
28 Oct 2014
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Top of PageKicking District, The
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Courtyard Theatre, London
2004
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Top of PageMaternal Cloister, The
based on the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Rehearsed Reading At I Encontro De Performance E Politica Nas Americas, Rio De Janeiro
2000
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Top of PageShading the Crime
the play is set in a special police unit in an unnamed country where gender-specific torture is used to humiliate, control and exert power over female 'political prisoners'. This country has a healthy tourist industry, despite its human rights atrocities, and is also seeking to secure trade deals. the play explores the duplicity of Western countries when dealing with and selling torture equipment to regimes that they know to be involved in human rights abuses. By highlighting the set patterns of recruitment that are used when torturers are employed, it also aims to dispel the myth that torturers are a small group of people who are 'born evil'. Shading the Crime uncomfortably implies that we are all potentially capable of both dehumanizing acts and dehumanisation under certain extreme circumstances, and that many people avoid voicing their objections to human rights abuse due to opportunities for financial reward, or because a country offers a desirable holiday destination. We mentally 'shade out the crime'.
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New Theatre, Exeter, Uk
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