Dr Elena Cooper
@drelenacooper.bsky.social
Arts Editor, Law & Humanities (UK academic journal published by Taylor & Francis). Senior Lecturer, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK. Author of 'Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image' (CUP, 2018).
"How George Devine’s English Stage Company paved the way for the Royal Court" tinyurl.com/mu9nzech
How English Stage Company paved the way for the Royal Court
Seventy years ago, a group of radical thinkers launched the English Stage Company. We look back at how it led to the birth of the Royal Court we know today
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February 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
"How George Devine’s English Stage Company paved the way for the Royal Court" tinyurl.com/mu9nzech
Again showing why literary/artistic and scholar mantles should be put into communication - one mission at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social!
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Again showing why literary/artistic and scholar mantles should be put into communication - one mission at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social!
Reading @kalimurray.bsky.social's essay re 18th cent enslavement & TM law 👇but also (as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Ed) Iinking Murray's use of literary theories of spectre & phantom to Winsome Pinnock's 'hauntology' in playwriting (see podcast at 13': shorturl.at/m71KW) shorturl.at/badOa
Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law | Texas Law Review
[Introduction] The retirement of trademarks such as “Uncle Ben” and “Aunt Jemima” during the fulcrum of the Black Lives Matter movement prompted scholars to reconsider how trademark law protected vari...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Reading @kalimurray.bsky.social's essay re 18th cent enslavement & TM law 👇but also (as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Ed) Iinking Murray's use of literary theories of spectre & phantom to Winsome Pinnock's 'hauntology' in playwriting (see podcast at 13': shorturl.at/m71KW) shorturl.at/badOa
Reposted by Dr Elena Cooper
I am so excited to present @create-glasgow.bsky.social, at the kind invitation of @drelenacooper.bsky.social on my ongoing project of examining trademark law’s relationship to enslavement. This is part of my larger project of examining categories of Despostic information in intellectual property.
Delighted to be chairing the Trade Mark History strand of this series. @kalimurray.bsky.social on (Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law: how an understanding of enslavement’s 18th century history, can illuminate fresh perspectives on trade mark law and its history. 👇online: 11 March 2pm
📣 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) - 𝘂𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸
We’re delighted to announce that we will host two CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series this spring!
📢Launched in Spring 2022 and since then has featured leading scholars worldwide, the series runs two online talks each term.
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We’re delighted to announce that we will host two CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series this spring!
📢Launched in Spring 2022 and since then has featured leading scholars worldwide, the series runs two online talks each term.
1/6🧵
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I am so excited to present @create-glasgow.bsky.social, at the kind invitation of @drelenacooper.bsky.social on my ongoing project of examining trademark law’s relationship to enslavement. This is part of my larger project of examining categories of Despostic information in intellectual property.
Delighted to be chairing the Trade Mark History strand of this series. @kalimurray.bsky.social on (Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law: how an understanding of enslavement’s 18th century history, can illuminate fresh perspectives on trade mark law and its history. 👇online: 11 March 2pm
📣 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) - 𝘂𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸
We’re delighted to announce that we will host two CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series this spring!
📢Launched in Spring 2022 and since then has featured leading scholars worldwide, the series runs two online talks each term.
1/6🧵
We’re delighted to announce that we will host two CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series this spring!
📢Launched in Spring 2022 and since then has featured leading scholars worldwide, the series runs two online talks each term.
1/6🧵
The CREATe Trade Mark Seminar Series: Spring 2026 – Talks by Prof. Kris Erickson and Weiwei Yi on Empirical Methods with Prof. Aniket Kesari as commentator and Prof. Kali Murray on Trade Mark History ...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Delighted to be chairing the Trade Mark History strand of this series. @kalimurray.bsky.social on (Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law: how an understanding of enslavement’s 18th century history, can illuminate fresh perspectives on trade mark law and its history. 👇online: 11 March 2pm
Fab talk 👇 "whether legal history has any direct relevance to the state of public law today" re sovereignty of Parliament. "There may be something to learn from way Coke interpreted the sovereignty of the king... if a way can be found to reconcile such ideas with our present notions of democracy."
We are delighted to be launching a truly exceptional year of #UCL200 events with the 75th Annual Bentham Association Presidential Address, delivered by Professor Sir John Baker KC, UCL alumnus and Honorary Fellow:
📅 Wednesday 18 February | 6pm | UCL
🎟️ Secure your place: tinyurl.com/ycxnkf9r
📅 Wednesday 18 February | 6pm | UCL
🎟️ Secure your place: tinyurl.com/ycxnkf9r
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Fab talk 👇 "whether legal history has any direct relevance to the state of public law today" re sovereignty of Parliament. "There may be something to learn from way Coke interpreted the sovereignty of the king... if a way can be found to reconcile such ideas with our present notions of democracy."
As @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor, I am drawn to this line; powerful in view of art that informs L&H (art that engages with legal themes): Anger “‘is a means of affectively registering or appreciating the injustice of the world’, comparable to our exercise of aesthetic judgment.”
Drawing from myriad historical and contemporary examples of social movements driven by anger, this Essay from the Aeon archive argues that it is often unfairly maligned. A clear-eyed exploration of anger that still resonates
Anger is a valuable emotion driving private and public good | Aeon Essays
To those who say anger is destructive or pointless: Not so! Getting angry spurs and sustains us to take action for justice
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February 2, 2026 at 10:34 AM
As @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor, I am drawn to this line; powerful in view of art that informs L&H (art that engages with legal themes): Anger “‘is a means of affectively registering or appreciating the injustice of the world’, comparable to our exercise of aesthetic judgment.”
“In this lecture Lee Miller’s son Antony Penrose talks about why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did & the work he has done to authenticate her evidence as a witness – evidence she deliberately left us in the hope it would help prevent history repeating.” tinyurl.com/2tcxr7sh
Lee Miller's Indelible Images
** This lecture includes Holocaust and WWII imagery that some viewers may find distressing. ** What is it that makes an image stick in our memory against our will? People find many of Lee Miller’s com...
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February 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
“In this lecture Lee Miller’s son Antony Penrose talks about why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did & the work he has done to authenticate her evidence as a witness – evidence she deliberately left us in the hope it would help prevent history repeating.” tinyurl.com/2tcxr7sh
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CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums
Collaborative forums connecting early-career scholars across the UK to explore interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:32 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
Proving that where there’s a good archive, there’s a story and it will always be authentic, always original: recent Liszt Institute lecture by the brilliant photo historian Dr Michael Pritchard now available online 👇 kraszna-krausz.org.uk/teaching-the...
Teaching the World Photography: Andor Kraszna - Krausz (1904 - 1989). Lecture by Dr Michael Pritchard - Kraszna-Krausz
Join us for this illustrated lecture about the life and legacy of the publisher, polymath and founder of KKF, Andor...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Proving that where there’s a good archive, there’s a story and it will always be authentic, always original: recent Liszt Institute lecture by the brilliant photo historian Dr Michael Pritchard now available online 👇 kraszna-krausz.org.uk/teaching-the...
On my way to RSA - home of 19th cent copyright reform - re @create-glasgow.bsky.social funded digital legal history resource: Stationers’ Register Online 1557-1640 led by English scholars Ian Gadd & Giles Bergel, which has changed book historians’ understandings of Shakespeare 👉 tinyurl.com/2y6m8y58
January 28, 2026 at 9:51 AM
On my way to RSA - home of 19th cent copyright reform - re @create-glasgow.bsky.social funded digital legal history resource: Stationers’ Register Online 1557-1640 led by English scholars Ian Gadd & Giles Bergel, which has changed book historians’ understandings of Shakespeare 👉 tinyurl.com/2y6m8y58
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OUT NOW: Ian Ellison @wadhamcollege.bsky.social reviews the visual art exhibition 'IIlustrationen zu Franz Kafka' (Regesburg, Germany) exploring rich 'visual afterlife' of a literary author who, while visual in his private creative process, resisted illustration of his work. shorturl.at/Skx0o
Illustrationen zu Franz Kafka, a visual art exhibition curated by Sebastian Schmidt, at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Germany, from 12 October 2024–12 January 2025
The afterlife of Franz Kafka's writing has proved strikingly visual. For more than a century, artists have returned to Kafka not only to illustrate his work in the conventional sense, but to test h...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:58 AM
OUT NOW: Ian Ellison @wadhamcollege.bsky.social reviews the visual art exhibition 'IIlustrationen zu Franz Kafka' (Regesburg, Germany) exploring rich 'visual afterlife' of a literary author who, while visual in his private creative process, resisted illustration of his work. shorturl.at/Skx0o
As a new force in critical creative theatre is released in Swansea - 1st production of new @welshnattheatre.bsky.social led by @mchshe.bsky.social - we're watching with interest at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social, home of scholarly engagement with arts. I'll be at the Rose to see the play in March!
★★★★ Review: Our Town – Michael Sheen anchors this bittersweet portrait of small-town life, in this first production for his Welsh National Theatre.
Read The Stage's review 👇
Read The Stage's review 👇
Our Town review at the Swansea Grand Theatre: powerful
Read our review of Our Town at the Swansea Grand Theatre: Michael Sheen anchors his Welsh National Theatre’s bittersweet portrait of small-town life
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January 22, 2026 at 10:05 AM
As a new force in critical creative theatre is released in Swansea - 1st production of new @welshnattheatre.bsky.social led by @mchshe.bsky.social - we're watching with interest at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social, home of scholarly engagement with arts. I'll be at the Rose to see the play in March!
CREATe Spring School: Remaking Creativity: 👇 examining the interplay between human creation & tech, & bringing together perspectives of copyright, competition & tech regulation scholars; addressed to early career scholars, creative industry professionals & policy makers. Looks SO good! Sign up now!
📢 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻: CREATe #SpringSchool 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆
We’re delighted to announce that the third edition of the CREATe Spring School will take place from 𝟮𝟵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 to 𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 at the University of Glasgow.
Check the blog for more info: www.create.ac.uk/study-with-u...
We’re delighted to announce that the third edition of the CREATe Spring School will take place from 𝟮𝟵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 to 𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 at the University of Glasgow.
Check the blog for more info: www.create.ac.uk/study-with-u...
January 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
CREATe Spring School: Remaking Creativity: 👇 examining the interplay between human creation & tech, & bringing together perspectives of copyright, competition & tech regulation scholars; addressed to early career scholars, creative industry professionals & policy makers. Looks SO good! Sign up now!
"Grok & X have recently come under fire as Grok reportedly produced & disseminated thousands of sexually explicit images of children & women on X in response to user requests. Many of these images were non-consensually altered photos of real people." What's the regulatory angle? CREATe is on it 👇
📢 New blog by CREATe fellow Dr Ayşe Gizem Yaşar.
This blog examines the regulatory implications of the recent Grok/X incident, where Grok generated and disseminated thousands of sexualised explicit images of children and woman on the platform.
🔗 Read here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/01...
This blog examines the regulatory implications of the recent Grok/X incident, where Grok generated and disseminated thousands of sexualised explicit images of children and woman on the platform.
🔗 Read here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/01...
Digital Services Act as AI governance: do systemic risk provisions of the DSA apply to Grok? - CREATe
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January 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
"Grok & X have recently come under fire as Grok reportedly produced & disseminated thousands of sexually explicit images of children & women on X in response to user requests. Many of these images were non-consensually altered photos of real people." What's the regulatory angle? CREATe is on it 👇
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"..even in a moment of satisfaction, he is still political. He is an activist as much as an actor. & now, also artistic director of a new national theatre company." The Stage 👇 on Michael Sheen & new Welsh National Theatre. We are watching with interest with arts reviews in mind!
Topping The Stage 100 after a career journey from Port Talbot to the West End and Hollywood, Michael Sheen has returned to his native Wales on a mission, as the founder and artistic director of the Welsh National Theatre.
He tells The Stage why this is his most crucial work yet👇
He tells The Stage why this is his most crucial work yet👇
Actor and founder of Welsh National Theatre Michael Sheen
Topping The Stage 100, Michael Sheen tells Nicholas Davies why his work as the founder and artistic director of Welsh National Theatre is his most crucial yet
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January 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
"..even in a moment of satisfaction, he is still political. He is an activist as much as an actor. & now, also artistic director of a new national theatre company." The Stage 👇 on Michael Sheen & new Welsh National Theatre. We are watching with interest with arts reviews in mind!
Kafka podcast by Ian Ellison (whose @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review is coming soon)👇 One 💡 point: was autism/neurodiversity part of Kafka's creative mantle, present in The Trial, in constant need to decode communication that's self-evident to neurotypical majority? tinyurl.com/jj33a5e3
Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial
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January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Kafka podcast by Ian Ellison (whose @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review is coming soon)👇 One 💡 point: was autism/neurodiversity part of Kafka's creative mantle, present in The Trial, in constant need to decode communication that's self-evident to neurotypical majority? tinyurl.com/jj33a5e3
The Herds by AN Zuabi, art-performance: huge animal puppets travel the globe inc the melting arctic connecting us directly to the world's fragility; I reflected on 'arts as agents of empathic transformation' in D Gurnham's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social review of Zuabi's The Walk shorturl.at/wfCqs
Herd instinct: life-size puppets tell a climate story
In 2025, the life-size puppets of art project THE HERDS traversed the globe, revealing the fragility of our world – and the urgent need for actions to preserve it.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The Herds by AN Zuabi, art-performance: huge animal puppets travel the globe inc the melting arctic connecting us directly to the world's fragility; I reflected on 'arts as agents of empathic transformation' in D Gurnham's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social review of Zuabi's The Walk shorturl.at/wfCqs
Land of the Living👇 NT play re post-1945 reversal of forced adoption by Nazis of 'special' Polish children into German families; the adoptee as active questioner, framing/driving the plot, is radical; I reflected on Alice Diver's Marian Hotel @law-and-humanities.bsky.social review. shorturl.at/BCr4U
The Land of the Living | National Theatre
Juliet Stevenson is Ruth in this remarkable and timely new play by David Lan, directed by Stephen Daldry.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Land of the Living👇 NT play re post-1945 reversal of forced adoption by Nazis of 'special' Polish children into German families; the adoptee as active questioner, framing/driving the plot, is radical; I reflected on Alice Diver's Marian Hotel @law-and-humanities.bsky.social review. shorturl.at/BCr4U
Happy new year to all! Over the break, I've reflected on how being @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor makes me see the arts differently. One day, I'll write about that, but two examples for now, of pieces I engaged with differently, by reading your excellent arts reviews & scholarship...
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Happy new year to all! Over the break, I've reflected on how being @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor makes me see the arts differently. One day, I'll write about that, but two examples for now, of pieces I engaged with differently, by reading your excellent arts reviews & scholarship...
"Sometimes I feel lighter than the air; when you shine you brighten up my day" lyrics penned by Finley Quaye that sum up my 2yrs so far as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor! Happy holidays to our community! More from me in 2026. "It's great when we're together" & that means Dublin 2026 👇
CfP: announcing the 8th L&H Roundtable workshop 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature' @tcddublin.bsky.social on 19 Jun 2026. Submit abstracts to [email protected] by Fri 6 Feb @legalhumanities.bsky.social @sophiedoherty.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @drelenacooper.bsky.social 👇
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Sometimes I feel lighter than the air; when you shine you brighten up my day" lyrics penned by Finley Quaye that sum up my 2yrs so far as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor! Happy holidays to our community! More from me in 2026. "It's great when we're together" & that means Dublin 2026 👇
Dr Kateryna Busol on the importance of both history and international law at the present moment 👇More from Dr Busol next year re @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts reviews of The Tate ‘Lee Miller’ & Imperial War Museum ‘Unsilenced: sexual violence in conflict’ exhibitions tinyurl.com/2yjsc872
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December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Dr Kateryna Busol on the importance of both history and international law at the present moment 👇More from Dr Busol next year re @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts reviews of The Tate ‘Lee Miller’ & Imperial War Museum ‘Unsilenced: sexual violence in conflict’ exhibitions tinyurl.com/2yjsc872
Congratulations again to Dr Aline Iramina and watch this space for some fab publications from her excellent PhD! 🌟👏 @alineiramina.bsky.social
🎓 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 🎓
On 3 December, CREATe team was delighted to toast our brilliant LLM graduates and a newly awarded Doctor of Laws at a gathering in the CREATe Hub. 🥂
Check the full blog here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
On 3 December, CREATe team was delighted to toast our brilliant LLM graduates and a newly awarded Doctor of Laws at a gathering in the CREATe Hub. 🥂
Check the full blog here: www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Congratulations again to Dr Aline Iramina and watch this space for some fab publications from her excellent PhD! 🌟👏 @alineiramina.bsky.social
One of the many reasons I love being an academic at CREATe: the ECR community are at the heart of so much of what we do.
📣𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀📣 AI Regulation Early-Career Researchers Conference 2026 (Glasgow)
CREATe is delighted to host the first AI Regulation Early Career Researchers (#ECR) Conference on 𝟯𝟭 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 – 𝟭 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, University of Glasgow, funded by @𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 (#SLS).
CREATe is delighted to host the first AI Regulation Early Career Researchers (#ECR) Conference on 𝟯𝟭 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 – 𝟭 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, University of Glasgow, funded by @𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 (#SLS).
December 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One of the many reasons I love being an academic at CREATe: the ECR community are at the heart of so much of what we do.
The gap between creator-intention & audience reception (explained below 👇 with quotes from Pina Bausch & Tom Stoppard) is one that we consciously & critically explore @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Just one reason why our Arts reviews - connecting Arts to knowledge - matter. tinyurl.com/mr2fvyht
Lyn Gardner on the effect of great theatre
How the audience feel after a show is as valid a measure of success as whether they 'got' it, says Lyn Gardner
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December 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The gap between creator-intention & audience reception (explained below 👇 with quotes from Pina Bausch & Tom Stoppard) is one that we consciously & critically explore @law-and-humanities.bsky.social. Just one reason why our Arts reviews - connecting Arts to knowledge - matter. tinyurl.com/mr2fvyht