Dr Tony Lidington
Status/discipline:
Drama
Contact Details:
Research projects:
Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (AHRC) with Kate Newey & Jim Davis’ AHRC project'; AHRC project with Professor Jane Milling – ‘Revitalising the Seaside’; 'Games, Time and Nostalgia conference paper at University of Exeter - “Adam Had ‘em”: exploring the difference in temporality between live performance and the gaming app representation of ‘Uncle Tacko’s Flea Circus’ (May 2023); history of British seaside entertainments at ‘Resorting to the Coast’ conference, Clacton/Tendring Council and University of East London (2018); ‘A Million Pictures AHRC project “A Fantastical Phantasmagorical Phenomenon for the Twenty-First Century – ghosts, gauzes and grandiloquence” (2017); 'Magic Lanterns Re-use' project - an Impact in Business for Exeter University with Drs Joe Kember & Richard Crangle (2016).
Outline of my research interests:
My primary research interest is in the field of British popular entertainment forms and how they may be applied and recognized in contemporary culture. I specialize in both primary and action research into itinerant entertainers (eg pierrot concert parties, peepshows, fairground sideshows) and the transference of that knowledge to as wide an audience as possible, using every available platform: this includes a substantial number of nationally broadcast radio series (these form the publication basis of my PhD thesis), television programmes, augmented reality applications, conference papers & speeches, as well as public performances and exhibitions.
