Phillips, Hannah (2020) The queer intersection of live and digital applied performance, youth, sexuality and mental health. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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In a Conservative, Brexit climate, homophobic and transphobic hate crimes have increased by fifty-five percent in the past five years (Francis, 2020), suicide rates for young LGBTQ+ people have also increased as stated by The Trevor Project (2019). Homophobia is endemic in Britain’s schools (Stonewall, 2017) and a new research study, published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health (2018) recently revealed children as young as ten who identify not to be heterosexual are more likely to demonstrate mental health issues. This PhD thesis is informed by practice, the performance project Heterophobia (2015), attempted to interrogate live and digital queer applied performance aesthetics for / with young people. Concluding that the virtual can operate outside of binary thinking and digital technology can offer an ever-evolving, reimagined, virtual, queer performative space for practice with young people that is not confined by fixed hegemonic gender or sexual identities and can disrupt heteronormative narrative. In Heterophobia (2015), a live social media platform offered a queer space where the live performance intersected the digital performance and the self-identified queer performers connected with the young audiences / participants in live discourse. This practice-as-research PhD stands as a call to activism for queer performance makers to make queer applied performance work for and with children and young people as a form of intervention for young LGBTQ+ people’s mental health issues and suicide.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Homosexuality in the theater, Bullying in schools, Participatory theater, Theater and social media, Theater audiences, Gay men -- Mental health, Lesbians -- Mental health
Official Date:	March 2020
Dates:	Date Event March 2020 UNSPECIFIED
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Theatre Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Haedicke, Susan C.
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	v, 236 leaves : illustrations (some colour)
Language:	eng

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