Alan Read (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetAlan Read (writer)
British writer
Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1956
Place of Birth: Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Alan Read (writer)
- Alan Read (born 21 September 1956) is a writer and professor of theatre at King's College London.
- Read is known as a theatre theorist and cultural activist, with scholarly interests in ethics and the everyday, performed communities, event architecture, and subjectivities of capitalism.
- Read's work stands as a critique of modernist theatrical orthodoxy critically contesting Peter Brook's idealism of the ‘empty space' awaiting its theatre, a tabula rasa for professionals to enter and exit at will.
- Read counter intuitively perceives theatre to have been superseded in that populated place by the quotidian performances of everyday life, those that remain for good and ill.
- Read took up this provocative critique on the National Theatre stage in London in 1994 in public dialogue with Brook's space-designer Jean-Guy Lecat, and joins others in his scepticism of the colonial fantasy of theatre's ‘empty space', including most assertively Rustom Bharucha in Theatre & The World (1993).
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