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Smile with Me: Discovering Care in Performance

This article explores the transformative potential of integrating care into live performance, particularly in health and long-term care settings, and articulates a model where performance becomes relational, reciprocal, and essential to holistic well-being.

Transactional analysis as a foundation for understanding personality in coaching

This review of Karen Pratt’s book Transactional Analysis Coaching: Distinctive Features examines a new conceptual approach proposed by the author. Coaches are invited to use transactional analysis as the primary framework for understanding personality, life script, and behavioral patterns, and to apply coaching tools w...

Beyond the Brush

Beyond the Brushexplores how women artists working with physical media – paint, charcoal, clay, pencil – reconsider their communications and creative practice as artificial intelligence increasingly redefines the very nature of art itself.Women, already historically marginalized in the art world, now face the disruptiv...

After the art monster: Imagining women's creativity otherwise

This article examines two recently released films, Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2023) and Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023), and argues that they exemplify a discourse of women’s creativity that departs markedly from the one that has been dominant in both mainstream cinema and much contemporary fiction, whi...

Experiencing Shakespeare's Theatres

In this transformative study, Simon Smith explores how playwrights like Shakespeare crafted their plays for demanding and varied commercial audiences. Rediscovering the many forms of judgement practised in the early modern playhouse, he investigates influences ranging from the classical tradition and grammar-school cla...

Toni's Fridge—Playing with Care