Dr David Linton
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Contact
- Email: d.linton@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Performing Arts
About
I have worked as a professional Actor/practitioner for over twenty-five years with numerous commercial theatres, arts organisations and television companies including the Royal Opera House, Barbican, Northampton Playhouse, BBC, Granada, Tiger Aspect and London Weekend Television. I have also worked as a company member in various community arts base practice/ projects, these include Nottingham Playhouse, Tranter Theatre and Contact theatre in Manchester, London Bubble, Rent-a-Role in Plymouth and Committed Artists theatre company, New York. As a founder member of Prussia Lane production company, a co-operative of performers, writers, filmmakers, designers, and dancers I am critically engaged in the exploration of interdisciplinary approaches in the creation and realization of performance projects. I was an integral researcher/collaborator on a three-year comparative study of popular theatre in London and Berlin, 1890-1939 a joint research project between Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Freie Universitat Berlin. I am committed to creative learning and equality of opportunity and as a member of British Actors Equity was a member of Equity's equalities committee, elected by my fellow actors.
Areas of specialism
- Popular Performance
- Applied theatre/Participatory practice
- Musical Theatre
- Theatre History/Historiography
- Issues of race, gender, sexualities, and nation in performance
- Cultural Performance
- Politics of agency and resistence
- Intersectionality
Qualifications
- (First Class) BA (Hons) Social Cultural & Creative Processes, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- PhD English and Comparative Literatures Goldsmiths College, University of London
Industry links
Creative consultant to Prussia Lane Productions
Professional membership
Member of British Actors Equity
Member of Society For Theatre Research (STR)
Research
I conduct research in world theatres, the politics of resistance/agency, adaptation and transnational exchange, Intersectionality, Critical Race theory, participatory arts practice, theatre history/ historiography, national and cultural identities, popular performance forms and their contemporary applications specifically mask/minstrelsy, music hall, pantomime, burlesque/ neo burlesque, pierrot, hip hop theatre and revue.
Publications
Number of items: 6.
Article
Linton, David (2013) New insecurities, new form, new identity - national identity and raciologies in Eightpence A Mile (1913). Studies in Musical Theatre, 7(1), pp. 9-22. ISSN (print) 1750-3159
Book
Linton, David , Platt, Len and Becker, Tobias, eds. (2014) Popular musical theatre in London and Berlin, 1890-1939. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. 227p. ISBN 9781107051003
Book Section
Linton, David (2016) English West End Revue : World War One and after. In: Gordon, Robert and Jubin, Olaf, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of the British musical. New York, U.S. : Oxford University Press. pp. 143-170. ISBN 9780199988747
Linton, David (2016) Performing dialogues of race and culture. In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Hamlet. Twickenham, U.K. : Aurora Metro Books. pp. iv-xv. ISBN 9781911501015
Linton, David (2014) Degeneration / regeneration : the remaking of nation in wartime West End revue. In: Wiseman, Sam, (ed.) Assembling identities. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 10-21. ISBN 9781443865296
Linton, David and Platt, Len (2014) Dover Street to Dixie and the politics of cultural transfer and exchange. In: Platt, Len , Becker, Tobias and Linton, David, (eds.) Popular musical theatre in London and Berlin 1890-1939. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 170-186. ISBN 9781107051003