Addiction and Performance: the New Normal? Kingston University – 4&5 April

Registration is now open for this joint conference, organised in partnership between Kingston University and Liverpool Hope University, and to be held in Kingston.

This conference aims to explore questions such as why drugs, addicts, and addictions appear so frequently in performance? Why are substances, users and dependency employed as devices in different kinds of narratives, across eras, genres and art forms, borders and identities? How do such works use representation to trouble the problematic term 'addiction' and its negative associations with mental illness, criminality, and disorder?

By bringing together researchers with performers, applied theatre practitioners, and therapeutic professionals working with arts-based treatments, this conference aims to articulate vital, new strategies capable of investigating and tackling this multifaceted field.

For more information and registration visit w: http://addictionandperformance.eventbrite.com/
(Early bird offer ends 1st March)