Cohen holloway biography of martin

I was awarded my PhD from Royal College in March 2010. I am an actor, a documentary maker, a teacher, a director and a street theatre performer.
My research area was the traditional glove puppet form  Punch and Judy in its current manifestation. The research attempted to fill the gap in current knowledge about the tradition, since no major research has been undertaken in the field for a quarter of a century. The research sought to discover what has happened to the tradition in that time and to reflect on earlier documentings of the form eller gestalt and their impact on it.The PhD was an AHRC funded collaborative project with the slag and Judy College of Professors. Collaborative PhDs are a fairly recent innovation and provide an ideal opportunity for a ethnographic work, since the collaborating institution is by definition welcoming of such research into itself.
The research discovered that, contrary to much popular opinion, the tradition is in fact thriving, and that there

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