Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Narratives, Objects and Public Memory (2018-21)
Between 2018 and 2021, Maria formed part of a team (with Principal Investigator Dr Bryce Lease, formerly at Royal Holloway University of London and now a Central colleague, fellow Co-Investigator Professor Michal Kobialka of the University of Minnesota, and Dr Cecilia Sosa, postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, working on a three-year AHRC-funded project examining how theatres and museums are currently shaping public memory of difficult pasts through their staging of narratives and objects. Engaging directly with research partners and major cultural institutions, the project was a collaboration among the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, University of Minnesota, Cricoteka, Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor (Kraków), Lluís Pasqual and El Solar (Spain), ESMA Museum and Teatro Cervantes (Buenos Aires), Holocaust Research Institute, Jewish Museum London and the Imperial War Museum. Further details are available at https://www.stagingdifficultpasts.org.
In Memoriam (Dir. Lluís Pasqual, Teatre Lliure, 2018).
Photo: Ros Ribas