Lucie Sutherland
Assistant Professor in Drama, Faculty of Arts
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Expertise Summary
Theatre and performance history and culture, specifically during the 19th and 20th centuries. My work has a particular focus upon theatre industry practice, including the transition from actor manager to theatre producer in the early part of the twentieth century.
I have published articles for journals focused on these areas, as well as writing theatre reviews for the TLS. I am a member of the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Theatre and Performance Research Association and the American Society for Theatre Research.
Teaching Summary
My teaching interests draw on research and also cover a wide chronological period; attending to forms of theatre, precise dramatic authors and theatre industry practice from the nineteenth century to… read more
Research Summary
My particular interest lies in the way professional infrastructure influences repertoire in mainstream theatre, with a particular focus on London's West End. I have published on subjects including… read more
I welcome enquiries about research and PhD work in the areas of drama (text and performance), theatre history, and the development of the U.K. theatre industry, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
I am currently supervising PhD work on allusions to theatre history and to dramatic texts in the fiction of Wilkie Collins.
My teaching interests draw on research and also cover a wide chronological period; attending to forms of theatre, precise dramatic authors and theatre industry practice from the nineteenth century to the present day. I am also interested in Shakespeare as performed in contemporary contexts, and this feeds directly in to much of my teaching within the School of English.
Undergraduate modules taught:
I teach at all undergraduate levels, including the following modules: Drama, Theatre, Performance; Twentieth-Century Plays; Changing Stages - Theatre Industry and Theatre Art.
Current Research
My particular interest lies in the way professional infrastructure influences repertoire in mainstream theatre, with a particular focus on London's West End. I have published on subjects including the emergence and influence of formal training for actors, and the altering professional status of the actress in the early twentieth century. My most recent publication is a monograph examining the actor-manager system, and its enduring influence upon theatre industry practice: George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, 2020).
Past Research
From 2006-2009 I was researcher on the AHRC funded project, 'Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867', which resulted in journal publications on performance culture in mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham.