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Performing the Interview

Embodied Reflections and Data-Dramas
Jane Isobel Luton

£67.99

This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create "Data-Dramas," capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.

This book articulates a new method for performing the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Submitting the first Creative Practice PhD in…
£67.99
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This book articulates a new method for performing the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Submitting the first Creative Practice PhD in Education at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Luton explores how researcher-in-role and theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create data through enactment, re-speaking, and devising—culminating in the creation of Data-Dramas.
Generating stories of melancholy and resilience with six international drama educators, Luton reveals how creative practice doctoral research can foster well-being, deepen artistic identity, and capture rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.

Jane Isobel Luton studied Theatre and Drama at the University of Warwick, UK before spending four years touring with a theatre company specialising in communication skills across the UK and USA. She completed her PGCE in Drama at the University of Reading. Settling in Aotearoa New Zealand, Jane became the first to earn a creative practice PhD in Education from the University of Auckland, where she developed her Embodied Reflections methodology. She has led secondary drama departments in both the UK and Aotearoa, directing numerous student productions. Jane is the author of five drama books and has contributed seven chapters to international collections with publishers including Brill, Bloomsbury, Intellect, Cambridge Scholars, Routledge, and Springer. Her articles explore drama education, creative research, and teaching during COVID-19. She continues to share her work internationally, most recently at the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), 2022.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6739-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6739-5
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-02

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6740-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6740-1
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-02

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: A, JN, GPS
  • BISAC: PER011000, PER011010, PER001000, PER019000, PER009000, EDU037000
  • THEMA: A, JN, GPS
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  • "[This] meticulously researched new book […] breaks wide open many preconceptions about drama teaching and the process of reflection. […] Drama teachers at all stages of their careers (and anyone interested in drama education) are likely to enjoy this book if they are ready to feel the fear and bring their vision, however scary (and potentially imperfect and vulnerable to failure), to life. That’s how the light gets in, how we—and children—learn."
    - Dr Margaret Anne McLaren, MA, PhD, Former PhD Student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

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