Archive for: 2015
The Imaginarium of Doctor Booth
Post by Naomi Paxton The Imaginarium of Doctor Booth was a piece written by Janine Waters, the artistic director of The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre in Chorlton, Manchester. Waters has been running weekly drama sessions at the Booth Centre, a day centre for homeless people, for many years – […]
Carran’s Working Diary 14: Drowning in Family History
When you are able to locate an archive that has been hidden and secret for many years that is exciting. I have recently done this. Hence my silence here for some time. It has been a hard work that has kept me up working on the night shift skulking […]
A sense of Agency…
Post by Naomi Paxton On Saturday 11th April, the Agency project held a Fun Day at the Miners Community Arts and Music Centre in Moston, North Manchester. The event was open to the whole community and was a showcase for the work of five young Agents the project developed and […]
Call for contributions – Precariousness
Please consider making a proposal in response to the ‘Call for contributions’ – and please also share with others who may be interested. Precariousness and the performances of welfare RiDE: the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance – Special themed issue Edited by Jenny Hughes Call for contributions ‘Precarious’ […]
The Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam: A theatre commons in action?
We are very pleased to include this guest blog post from Hebe Reilly – MA Applied Theatre student at the University of Manchester. The post arises from her MA research on theatre commons in India and the UK. When reading Jenny Hughes’ posts on the theatre commons I began contemplating my […]
Carran’s Working Diary 13: The Inbetween Time
I have been reflecting on the creation of this piece since its first tentative exposure in April this year. I have put together here in this short film a consideration of that. One question that keeps coming up concerns how Jenny and I work together on the piece. That’s quite […]