All the World's a Stage: Empowering Compositional Creativity, Amplifying Underrepresented Voices, and Breaking Down Barriers to Audience Engagement w

博士作曲家将支持诺丁汉剧场参与部门，与不同社区合作创作音乐剧作品，并促进包容性合作制作和混合/在线表演的新实践的发展，以实现他们的使命"讲述反映我们城市的不同故事，并“为我们的社区创造改变生活的体验”。研究背景在新冠肺炎大流行期间，诺丁汉剧场没有现场表演，不得不想办法在网上与观众分享作品。这些新的在线表演形式使剧场能够接触到通常无法在诺丁汉观看表演的国内和国际观众和/或可能面临观看/参与现场表演障碍的当地观众。在线平台进一步实现了艺术家和观众在演出之前、期间和之后的新互动模式，包括更多的非正式互动，这可以鼓励更广泛的观众参与。今年，诺丁汉剧院还正式承诺通过出版“反种族主义行动计划”，实现代表性变革，声援黑人生命物质运动。作为这一计划的一部分，剧场承诺“确保他们在舞台上展示的作品和参与创作的作品反映他们所服务的社区”。在这个关键时刻，剧场考虑如何将在线表演的积极经验带入后新冠肺炎的环境，并探索以包容的方式在舞台上向新观众展示社区故事的新方法，博士作曲家-研究员将：-调查在线和混合/互动音乐剧表演格式如何支持诺丁汉剧场参与和发展不同的观众-创建新的在线和混合音乐剧作品，作为诺丁汉剧场参与计划的一部分，放大代表性不足的诺丁汉声音-为剧场的“放大”计划和其他区域艺术家/场地的艺术家提供领导，以适应他们的工作，为不同的观众提供包容性的在线/混合交付研究生将研究以下问题：1）作曲家如何在一部音乐剧作品中再现代表性不足的人群的历史故事，从而与当代不同的观众产生共鸣？2)作曲家可以采用哪些最佳方法和实践来与不同的社区共同创作音乐剧？3)如何通过观众的个人移动的设备在表演过程中导航观众互动，激活与音乐剧作品的艺术家和内容的更丰富的参与？4)混合和在线音乐剧表演的最有效模式是什么，以使诺丁汉剧场（和其他类似场所）能够吸引新观众，特别是那些在文化场所观看现场表演时面临/继续面临障碍的观众？5)在线平台如何在演出之前、期间和之后实现并激活与观众的互动？方法主要的研究方法将是基于实践的研究，这将在一个迭代的过程中展开，在与主要的共同创作者，利益相关者，诺丁汉剧场工作人员和主管的研讨会上测试正在进行的工作，然后根据这些会议的反馈进行重新设计和改进。研究人员还将在诺丁汉档案馆进行档案研究，以发现来自代表性不足的人口的故事，通过音乐剧创作项目重新活跃起来。研究人员将利用定性-定量研究方法，采访并收集来自共同创作者，利益相关者和观众的反馈

The PhD composer will support the Nottingham Playhouse Participation Department, composing/co creating musical theatre works in partnership with diverse communities, and fostering development of new practices around inclusive co-production and hybrid/online performance to realise their mission 'to tell diverse stories that reflect our city and 'create life-changing experiences for our community'. Research ContextWithout live, in-person performances through the Covid-19 pandemic, Nottingham Playhouse has had to find ways to share work with audiences online. These new online performance formats have enabled the Playhouse to reach national and international audiences who would not normally be able to attend a performance in Nottingham and/or local audiences who may face barriers to attending/engaging with in-person performances. Online platforms have further enabled new modes of interactivity between artists and audiences before, during, and after performances, including more informal interactions, which can encourage a wider range of audience members to engage. This year, the Nottingham Playhouse also formalised their commitment to effecting representative change in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by publishing an 'Anti-Racism Action Plan'. As part of this plan, the Playhouse committed 'to ensure that the work [they] present on [their] stages and create in [their] participation reflects the communities that [they] serve'.At this pivotal moment as the Playhouse considers how to bring the positive learnings from online performances into the post-Covid landscape and explores new ways of presenting community stories on stage in inclusive ways to new audiences, the PhD composer-researcher will:- Investigate how online and hybrid/interactive musical theatre performance formats can support the Nottingham Playhouse in engaging with and developing diverse audiences- Create new online and hybrid musical theatre works to be presented as part of the Nottingham Playhouse Participation programmes, which amplify underrepresented Nottingham voices- Provide leadership to artists in the Playhouse's 'Amplify' programme and other regional artists/venues in how to adapt their work for inclusive online/hybrid delivery to diverse audiencesResearch QuestionsThe student will investigate the following questions:1) How can a composer reanimate historical stories from underrepresented populations in a musical theatre work which resonates with diverse contemporary audiences?2) What are the best methodologies and practices a composer can deploy to respectfully co-create musical theatre with diverse communities?3) How can audience interactivity navigated through the course of a performance via the audience's personal mobile devices activate richer engagement with the artists and content of a musical theatre work? 4) What are the most effective modes of hybrid and online musical theatre performance to enable the Nottingham Playhouse (and other similar venues) to engage with new audiences, particularly audiences who have faced/continue to face barriers to attending live performances at cultural venues? 5) How can online platforms enable and activate engagement with audiences before, during, and after performances? MethodologyThe primary research methodology will be practice-based research, which will unfold in an iterative process with work-in-progress tested in workshop sessions with key co-creators, stakeholders, Nottingham Playhouse staff, and supervisors, and then reworked and refined in response to feedback from these sessions. The researcher will also undertake archival research at Nottingham archives to uncover stories from underrepresented populations to reanimate through musical theatre composition projects. The researcher will utilise qualitative - quantitative research methodologies to interview & collect feedback from co-creators, stakeholders, & audience