{"id":10668,"date":"2011-10-04T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=10668"},"modified":"2011-10-04T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:50:36","slug":"infamous-angel-the-cherub-company-and-the-problem-of-definition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/programs\/archived-programs\/road-scholars\/grad-road-scholars\/infamous-angel-the-cherub-company-and-the-problem-of-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"(In)famous Angel: The Cherub Company and the Problem of Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em> \u201c(In)famous Angel: The Cherub Company and the Problem of Definition\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Presenter: Brian Cook, a PhD student in Theatre Arts, specializes in  alternative and counter-hegemonic theatre forms and practices,  especially as they appear in Britain. \u00a0A director and theatre artist, he  recently directed \u201cPlayhouse Creatures\u201d for University Theatre, a play  about the first actresses on the British stage in the 1660s.<\/p>\n<p>The Cherub Company was an alternative British theatre company whose  work defied most of the categories which inscribed theatre practice in  Britain in the 1980s, largely due to their Eastern European aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>Cherub\u2019s work today would likely be commonplace, but in its own time,  it was derided for producing \u201cbad\u201d theatre. In part, the criticism was  directed at how they uprooted conventional depictions of gender in the  canonical plays of Shakespeare. This presentation examines gender in  Shakespeare and Fletcher\u2019s \u201cTwo Noble Kinsmen\u201d (1979) and Shakespeare\u2019s  \u201cTwelfth Night\u201d (1982), two productions that especially offended the  traditionalist drama representatives of the primary arts funding body,  the Arts Council of Great Britain. This case study allows us to see what  happens when governments, critics or historians use only a narrow  canonical judgement to separate \u201cgood\u201d artists from the \u201cbad.\u201d Often,  artists, like Cherub, must conform or perish, and this has potentially  detrimental impact on diversity in the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c(In)famous Angel: The Cherub Company and the Problem of Definition\u201d Presenter: Brian Cook, a PhD student in Theatre Arts, specializes in alternative and counter-hegemonic theatre forms and practices, especially as they appear in Britain. \u00a0A director and theatre artist, he&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/programs\/archived-programs\/road-scholars\/grad-road-scholars\/infamous-angel-the-cherub-company-and-the-problem-of-definition\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":6958,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10672,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10668\/revisions\/10672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}