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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts
Episode: Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Description: Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/director, working in Ireland and internationally. She is the Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions, established with Owen Boss in Dublin in 2009. Lowe is known for facilitating and creating moments of interior reckoning for audiences through immersive performance techniques. These techniques engage spectators in affectively realised moments of understanding that the stories unfolding through performance reflect living histories in need of greater socio-political engagement and intervention. The Theatre of Louise Lowe (Cambridge UP, 2025) assesses Lowe's creative practice an...