Sylvia Vickers

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3037

Sylvia Vickers (Honours diploma, (Acting), Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. BA, (1st class), University of Sussex) is a senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.

Her teaching and research interests focus on contemporary theatre practice and performance in the UK, with special interest in Comedy, Cultural politics, Directing and the work of Max Stafford-Clark.

Sylvia has worked extensively in the British Theatre as an Actress and Director. She was cofounder and Artistic Director of the fringe theatre company Brighton Actors Workshop (1976 to 1979) and Studio 12, theatre in education company (1980-85).

She is the founder and director of Wired, a performance group based in Brighton.

The representation of sexuality and gender in visual art has been the focus of the work to date. She is also a freelance Director.

Teaching

Like most tutors, Sylvia teaches seminar and practice based courses; she has particular responsibility for teaching the two courses, Arguments for Comedy and Performing Comedy as well as Approaches to Directing on the BA programme and she will be introducing a further course The Modern Director in 2004. Other teaching includes Practical Approaches to Acting, Processes of Performance , Drama in Performance Renaissance Theatre.

Recent and forthcoming publications and Directed Public Performances

'Space, Genre and Methodology'. An examination of Max Stafford-Clark's production of Three Sisters on tour. New Theatre Quarterly, February, 1999.

'Ladies in Waiting' (Wired) performed at 52, Brunswick Square, Brighton (Brighton Festival, May 2000)

'Lula and Marietta' (Wired) at The Sanctuary Café, Brighton (Brighton Festival, May 2002)

'The Car' (Sarah Wishart) at The Room at The Orange Tree, Richnond.(1999)

'Sweet Celerity' (Susan Baker) at BAC (2000) These plays were written by students studying on the BA course Writing for the Theatre

'Leopoldine' (Sandra Freeman) at The Komedia, Brighton, 2002

Currently working with Wired on site specific based piece interrogating gender relations in 1930's Detective Thriller for Brighton Festival 2003

'Claiming Authenticity, Word for Word'. Article considering the ethical practice of Out of Joint and the application of Verbatim Theatre. To be completed 2003

Research Projects Undertaken

See the "Publications" section below.

Qualification Details

(Honours diploma, (Acting), Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

BA, (1st class), University of Sussex).

Research Expertise

Her teaching and research interests focus on contemporary theatre practice and performance in the UK, with special interest in Comedy, Cultural politics, Directing and the work of Max Stafford-Clark.

All Sylvia's current research in performance practice is undertaken with "Wired Theatre", the company which she founded and directs.
For further details see www.wiredtheatre.co.uk.

Presently her writing is focussed on Ethics, Subjectivity and Verbatim Theatre in Max Stafford-Clark's productions.

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies