Leah Sidi

ORCID: 0000-0002-0040-1192
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  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Art Therapy and Mental Health
  • Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
  • Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
  • Samuel Beckett and Modernism
  • Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Healthcare Systems and Challenges
  • Irish and British Studies

University College London
2021-2025

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
2025

University of Warwick
2019-2022

Research International (United States)
2019-2022

University of Ulster
2022

Birkbeck, University of London
2017-2021

Technological University Dublin
2019-2021

Kinokuniya
2020

Cambridge University Press
2020

New York University Press
2020

Separated by a gap of 27 years, Anna Reynold’s Jordan (1992) and Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott (2015) offer, on the surface, dramaturgically similar critiques impact poverty motherhood. Both plays are critically acclaimed monologues for women, which describe death baby following inadequate interventions from health and/or social care services. This article examines different theatrical contexts these offers situated reading representation maternal crisis circumstances deprivation. When...

10.1136/medhum-2024-013094 article EN Medical Humanities 2025-01-20

Theatre Essentials in Three Acts: Collaboration, Care, Time Shawn Chua (bio), Sozita Goudouna Adham Hafez Eero Laine Sarah Lucie Juliana Moraes Malin Palani Rumen Rachev and Leah Sidi (bio) The following is not an article. Nor it a play, despite its structure. To some extent, performance experiment. It was written collaboratively by group of performance-makers scholars response to the difficulties writing studying during pandemic. Following cancelled international conference, we wrote from...

10.1353/tt.2021.0025 article EN Theatre topics 2021-01-01

This article investigates Sarah Kane’s dramaturgy and its relation to her portrayal of mental illness madness, drawing on the performance context Katie Mitchell’s Cleansed by National Theatre (2016). Reading text direction in a productive tension with one another, it suggests that Mitchell introduced new dramatic elements which radically alter kind experience presented play. commitment enigmatic theatre disrupts conventions both psychological realism, socio-political visual practices refuse...

10.1080/13528165.2017.1348659 article EN Performance Research 2017-04-03

10.16995/sim.250 article RO cc-by Studies in the Maternal 2017-08-01

The deinstitutionalisation of mental hospital patients made its way into UK statutory law in 1990 the form NHS and Community Care Act. Act ushered final stage asylum closures moving responsibility for long-term care mentally ill individuals out hands local authorities. This article examines reaction to passing two major tabloid presses, Sun Daily Mirror, order reveal how community changed emotional terrain storytelling on health. Reviewing an archive 15 years reporting illness, I argue that...

10.1136/medhum-2020-012117 article EN cc-by Medical Humanities 2021-08-20

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10.1017/s0266464x22000392 article EN New Theatre Quarterly 2023-01-30

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10.1017/s0307883319000476 article EN Theatre Research International 2019-10-01

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10.1017/s0307883319000531 article EN Theatre Research International 2020-02-28

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10.1017/s0307883320000516 article EN Theatre Research International 2020-10-01

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10.1017/s0307883320000012 article EN Theatre Research International 2020-06-24

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10.1017/s0307883321000432 article EN Theatre Research International 2022-02-18

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10.1017/s0307883321000249 article EN Theatre Research International 2021-10-01

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10.1017/s0307883321000018 article EN Theatre Research International 2021-07-01

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10.1017/s030788332000053x article EN Theatre Research International 2021-03-01
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