Academic articles and chapters

‘Karl Valentin’s "Father and Son Discuss the War"’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2007, pp.5-11 Click HERE to read online

‘Punk Rock as Popular Theatre’, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XXIII Part 1, February 2007, pp.35-48 Click HERE to read online

‘Brecht and Cabaret’ The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.40-61 (with Michael Wilson)     Click HERE to read online

‘Karl Valentin’s Illogical Subversion’, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XX Part 3, August 2004, pp.203-15 (with Michael Wilson)

‘Characterization in Stand-Up Comedy: from Ted Ray to Billy Connolly, via Bertolt Brecht’, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XVI Part 4, November 2000, pp.315-23

'Teaching Stand-Up Comedy. A Mission: Impossible?', Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 20 no. 1, 2000, pp.14-23

'Alternative comedy: from radicalism to commercialism', Popular Theatres? (ed. Ros Merkin), Liverpool John Moores University Press, 1996, pp.127-39

'Laughing all the way to the bank? Alternative comedy in the provinces', New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 39, August 1994, pp.255-62

 

Journalism

‘How was ’05 for...’, The Times Higher, 23 December 2005, p.19

‘My Worst Nightmare’, The Times Higher, 17 December 2004, p.38

‘Teaching on the Front Line’, The Times Higher, 20 August 2004, p.24

‘Strategic Identity Crisis’, Connections, Winter/Spring 2003, pp.11-12

‘Craft of the crafty playwright’, The Times Higher, 13 September 2002, p.15

'Teeth and smiles', New Statesman, 12 March 1993, pp.33-34

'Gagging on the punters', New Statesman, 15 May 1992, pp.32-33

'Taking on the liberals', Plays International, March 1992, pp.20-21

 

Introductions, reviews and entries in reference books  

'Malcolm Hardee' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Review of Jacky Bratton and Ann Featherstone, The Victorian Clown, in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XXIII Part 2, May 2007, pp.191-192

Review of Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering (eds.), Beyond a Joke: the Limits of Humour, in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XXII Part 3, August 2006, pp.303-304

Review of Tony Allen, A Summer in the Park: a Journal of Speakers’ Corner, in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XXI Part 2, May 2005, p.200

Review of Paul Allen, Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge, in New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. XIX Part 1, February 2003, p.94

‘Foreword’ in Tony Allen, Attitude: Wanna Make Something of it? The Secret of Stand-Up Comedy, Glastonbury: Gothic Image, 2002, p.xiii

‘Comedians’ and ‘Rudolph Walker’, in Alison Donnell (ed.), Companion to Black British Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 2002

‘Stand-up comedy’, in Colin Chambers (ed.), Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, London and New York: Continuum, 2002