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*’A Mighty Bust-Up: John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy’s The Island of the Mighty at the Aldwych Theatre, December 1972’ in Studies in Theatre and Performance, vol. 32, number 1, 2012, pp.3-14

* ‘”Who is Skivvy?” The Russian influence on Theatre Workshop’, in Jonathan Pitches (ed), Russians in Britain, London: Routledge, 2012, pp.110-138.

* ‘Playwright: Best Kept Secret: Ewan MacColl’ in The Eildon Tree, 019-020, Summer-Autumn 2011, pp.17-18.

* ‘The Short, Astonishing History of the National Theatre of Scotland’ in New Theatre Quarterly, 23:2, May 2007, pp.171-183.

* ‘As You Like It – a Robin Hood Play’, in English Studies, vol 82, No.5, 2001, pp.393-400; reprinted in Lee, Michelle (ed), Shakespearean Criticism, vol.118, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2009.

* ‘Meyerhold and Biomechanics’, in Alison Hodge (ed), Twentieth Century Actor Training, London: Routledge, 2000, pp.37-54.

* ‘When He Touches Your Heart ... – the Revolutionary Theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold and the Development of Mikhail Chekhov’ in Contemporary Theatre Review, vol.7, part 1, 1997, pp.65-83.

* ‘Mother Courage and her Children’ in Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (edd), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.128-138.

* ‘I Want a Baby – Three Times’ in Studies in Theatre Production, number 8, December 1993, pp.5-18.

* ‘Eisenstein’s Theatre Work’ in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor (edd), Eisenstein Rediscovered, Routledge, 1993, pp.110-125.

* ‘The Non-Stop Connolly Show into the Future’ in Theatre Ireland, No.28, summer 1992, pp.39-42.

* ‘Brecht’s Teacher’ in Modern Drama, vol.XXXII, number 4, December 1989, pp.502-511.

* ‘Brecht’s Man = Man’, Studies in Theatre Practice, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, 1987.

* ‘The Place of the Popular in D’Arcy and Arden’s Plays’ in The Crane Bag, vol. 8, number 2, 1984, pp.111-114.

* ‘A Good Beginning: Victory Over the Sun and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Tragedy Re-assessed’ in Russian Literature, XIII, 1983, pp.101-115.

* ‘Punch and Judy and Oral Tradition’ in Folklore, vol.94, number i, 1983, pp.75-85.

* ‘Connolly Reclaimed’ in Platform, New Perspectives on Theatre Today, issue 5, spring 1983, pp.12-15.

* ‘The Swatchel Omi: Punch and Judy and Oral Tradition’ in Theatre Quarterly, vol IX, No.36, 1980, pp.66-76.

* ‘Community Theatre’ in Cambridge Journal of Education, vol.4, No.3, Michaelmas Term 1974, pp.146-152.