Ballou, Hannah [Artist] (2018) The doctor is in. Calm Down Dear. 53 min.

Abstract

The Doctor Is In is a feminist investigation into the performativity of the comic pedant by way of an autobiographical neo-burlesque re-imagination of Il Dottore (the archetype from the commedia dell'arte) as La Dottora, who must negotiate a contemporary landscape of casualised labour, sexism embedded in the academy, and the student-as-consumer model of higher education. How might the scholarliness within feminist comic practice as research produce the very comic material it pretends to analyse? It is an artistic intervention in the conversation surrounding inequality for female-identified academics that phthonically targets hetero-patriarchy induced 'impostor syndrome'.

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Item Type:	Performance/Live Event
Event Title:	Calm Down Dear
Locations and Dates of Event:	Location From Date To Date Camden People's Theatre, London, U.K. 21 January 2018 21 January 2018
Additional Information:	The research was funded in-kind by Camden People's Theatre.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feminist comedy, commedia dell'arte, stand up, neo-burlesque
Research Area:	Research Areas > Drama, dance and performing arts
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Arts, Culture and Communication
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2018 09:37
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2020 15:29
URI:	https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/41160

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