Professor of Theatre at U of York, UK. Tweeting in a personal capacity. Works on contemporary historical playwriting, radical adaptation, dramaturgy.
East Yorkshire, UK
Joined September 2011
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*Now available in paperback*
'The Contemporary History Play: Staging English and American Pasts' by @DrBenPoore proposes a radical new framework for analysing contemporary historical drama.
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Celebrating #ShakespeareBirthday and #WomenandShakespeare birthday with music by conversing with wonderful composer Dominique Le Gendre in a brand new podcast episode! Available on all podcast platforms & the website womenandshakespeare.com. So, tune in (pun intended! :))
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🎥 Save The Prince Charles Cinema! This iconic London cinema is at risk of closing due to unfair rent demands. Sign the petition to protect its future #SaveThePCC you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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Join us this evening for a free talk about Shakespeare from a leading Shakespeare scholar, @EarlyModernDoc @LTUEnglish alumna. #LTUEnglishChangedMyLife
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I'm looking forward to hosting Varsha Panjwani for 'Women Making Shakespeare Today' - tomorrow, 13th November 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Registration is free (below). Come join us - & please spread the word.
@shakespearebt @BSAShakespeare @The_Globe
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Help to give @theartsdesk a future! 15 years after our debut, we urgently need financial assistance to continue our vital role as a small but sturdy hub of British cultural life. Find out how you can help here on GoFundMe gofund.me/c3f6033d - thank you!
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Have a book brewing on Global Shakespeares? Send us a proposal! The series editor is Alexa Alice Joubin & and I am delighted to join the editorial board. Click the link for titles already published & other details. link.springer.com/series/150…
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"The Contemporary History Play: New Readings, New Audiences" is on 9th December: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-conte…. Benjamin Poore and Rebecca Benzie share their work on historical drama on stage. @DrBenPoore @BecBenzie @HRCYork
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What a privilege to be talking to these brilliant artists and community builders @The_Globe. Do join us as for what l am sure is bound to be an important conversation! Plus, it's free to attend! shakespearesglobe.com/whats-…
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Went to see the amazing @sedickenson's epic and brilliant play @ExeterNorthcott yesterday. Fills me with joy to see a dramaturg who's helped so many craft wonderful pieces of theatre to come into her own as a writer! #thecommotiontime
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On Wednesday 16 Ian Rickson will join us in conversation with Laura Monrós-Gaspar on his recent production London Tide (NT, 2024) based on Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend.
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!!Final days to get this beauty with brains at the sale price of £20.29!! *Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West* offers bifocal lens of *Familiar Strangers* to study non-Anglophone Shax. Rumoured to be as nourishing as homemade khichdi bit.ly/3LFoXOG
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Check out the CFP for the LFA/AAS online conference Feb. 20-22, 2025 (with a Dec. 1, 2024 deadline for abstracts). I'm very excited about our topic, adaptation and aging. Here is info., which includes a link for submissions. @adaptstudies @litfilmassn litfilm.org/conference/lfa-a…
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Rebecca Benzie
@BecBenzie
Contributions from a range of wonderful scholars and practitioners:
@Arifa_Akbar,@CatherineLove21,@KThomaidis
@jonvenn,@kath_graham,@FayeRigopoulou
@pflonergan,@Dr_A_Hartl,@lisawoynarski
@bigbookenergy,@Kasia_Lech,@reid_trish
@sarahbartaz,@katejlovell
Beyond excited to announce that The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre co-edited by @marissiafr and myself is now available for pre-order ahead of publication in February! bloomsbury.com/uk/methuen-dr…
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Submissions are now open for the Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries taking place in York in September 2025! You can visit our website for more information #DARCI2025 #EnhancingAD enhancingaudiodescription.co…
ALT Aerial photo of Heslington Hall, a listed building at the University of York. It has orange brick and several chimneys.
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The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
This is news.
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Rosamund Pike, Michael Sheen, Arinzé Kene, Rory Kinnear, London Road and Sondheim’s final musical will feature in Rufus Norris’s last season at the National Theatre timeout.com/london/news/step…
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I am obsessed with *Midsummer Mechanicals* in which all the artisans from *A Midsummer Night's Dream* get to shine. It was inspiring to talk to the brilliant @Kramps about it on the new 'Women & Shakespeare' episode. Tune in! womenandshakespeare.com
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New research out now ✍️
@BecBenzie's 'Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play' explores work produced at major British theatres from 2000 to the present by a generation of innovative women playwrights.
bit.ly/3zwF9Pz
Happy publication day to @BecBenzie ! This is a key intervention in the field — looking forward to using and citing it!📖 🎉bloomsbury.com/uk/feminism-d…
