Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex

Tom Maguire

Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex

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Abstract

When I saw The Hamilton Complex, at Birmingham Rep as part of the programme for the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering, On the Edge, in July 2016, it was received rapturously by many and angrily by some. Directed by Lies Pauwels, the show was a co-production between Pauwels’s company Sontag and Belgium’s leading children’s theatre company HETPALEIS. Prior to the staging in Birmingham, it had toured across Europe and been presented as part of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), at the Unicorn Theatre, London’s dedicated venue for young audiences. In this chapter, I explore my own responses to this production as a way of opening up a debate about ethics and gender representation in Theatre for Young Audiences, particularly those that include young people as performers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Diversity, Representation, and Culture in TYA
Editors	Manon van de Water
Place of Publication	Cape Town
Publisher	ASSITEJ South Africa
Chapter	5
Pages	46-57
Number of pages	12
Volume	n/a
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9780994650566
ISBN (Print)	9780994650559
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 1 Nov 2020
Event	ITYARN Third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Forum at the XVIIIth ASSITEJ World Congress - Warsaw, Poland Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → … http://www.ityarn.org/

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Conference	ITYARN Third International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Forum at the XVIIIth ASSITEJ World Congress
Period	1/01/14 → …
Internet address	http://www.ityarn.org/

Keywords

Theatre for Young Audiences
Girl Studies
male gaze

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Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex

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Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

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Other files and links

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Activities

Witches in Young People's Culture

Beginning the journey: Legacy and Innovation in TYA

Creating Work for Young Audiences

Research output

Human beings in a theatre made for them: the child’s voice in contemporary theatre for young audiences.

Alternative Worlds: the emergence of Theatre for Young Audiences from the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Theatre for Young Audiences in Ireland

Press / Media

How training for stage and screen can combat bullying and abuse

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