Spiritualism as Popular Performance in the 1930s: The Dark Theatre of Helen Duncan

dc.contributor.author	Featherstone, S.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-26T10:33:09Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-26T10:33:09Z
dc.date.issued	2011-05
dc.description.abstract	The essay examines the strange, illicit performances of the medium Helen Duncan as a way of re-assessing British popular theatre of the 1930s and 1940s. By providing intimate, emotionally-fulfilling theatre for her audiences, it argues that Duncan continued established popular performative practices whilst at the same time posing radical questions about the limits and meanings of the representation of class and the female body.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Featherstone, S. (2011) Spiritualism as Popular Performance in the 1930s: the Dark Theatre of Helen Duncan. New Theatre Quarterly, 27 (2), pp. 141-152	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X11000273
dc.identifier.issn	0266-464X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2086/7336
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.peerreviewed	Yes	en
dc.researchgroup	Drama Research Group
dc.subject	spiritualism	en
dc.subject	popular theatre	en
dc.subject	Helen Duncan	en
dc.subject	the body	en
dc.title	Spiritualism as Popular Performance in the 1930s: The Dark Theatre of Helen Duncan	en
dc.type	Article	en

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