NeoliberalismArchives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:31:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Collective Encounters (Liverpool, UK) – practice and theory http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/collective-encounters-liverpool-uk-practice-and-theory/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:21:53 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=1079 We are delighted to publish a guest blog from Matthew Elliott, Youth Theatre Director at Collective Encounters. This blog post is a summary of Matthew’s presentation at the ‘Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity‘ symposium at the University of Manchester on 4th November 2015. Listen to Matthew’s presentation, as […]

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]]> We had something to say, not something to sell http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/we-had-something-to-say-not-something-to-sell/ Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:09:35 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=897 We are delighted to post this ‘guest blog’ by Carry Gorney – this is made up of excerpts from Carry’s book,  Send me a parcel with a hundred lovely things. The title of this blog post comes from Suze Rotolo A memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties (2008). I’m ready […]

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]]> A day in the life … appreciating the Men’s Room, Manchester http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/a-day-in-the-life-appreciating-the-mens-room-manchester/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:21:29 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=784 Post by Jenny Hughes On Wednesday evening last week – a warm, late summer evening in central Manchester – Hulme Community Garden Centre was the site of the final outcome of the latest in a series of artist residencies at the Men’s Room in Manchester. The Men’s Room is an arts and […]

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]]> Call for contributions – Precariousness http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/call-contributions-precariousness/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:15:34 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=657 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’ […]

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]]> Octagon Theatre, social housing and the uses of history http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/octagon-theatre-social-housing-and-the-uses-of-history/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/octagon-theatre-social-housing-and-the-uses-of-history/#respond Wed, 20 May 2015 19:04:51 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=648 Post by Jenny Hughes I am looking at the history of a partnership between a major regional theatre and social housing provider in the North – the Octagon Theatre and Bolton at Home. The aim is to document the partnership by talking to key artists and community members as well as […]

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]]> http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/octagon-theatre-social-housing-and-the-uses-of-history/feed/ 0 “This is ours” http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/this-is-ours/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/this-is-ours/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:28:18 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=373 Post by Jenny Hughes (fire letters created by pa-Boom – see artist credits below) ‘This is ours’ – the final image from the Everyday Heroes outdoor performance held on Heginbottom Crescent and the green space on Smallshaw Lane opposite the Crescent, on 27th September 2014, in Ashton-under-Lyne. The performers led […]

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]]> http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/this-is-ours/feed/ 9 The (neo)liberal politics of applied and social theatre – critiquing ‘self-help’ and ‘self-entrepreneurship’ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/the-neoliberal-politics-of-applied-and-social-theatre-critiquing-self-help-and-self-entrepreneurship/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/the-neoliberal-politics-of-applied-and-social-theatre-critiquing-self-help-and-self-entrepreneurship/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:17:43 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=114 Post by Jenny Hughes I’m putting a health warning on this post – it’s more relevant to readers interested in applied and social theatre, rather than theatre and poverty more generally – it comes out of some research I’m doing for a chapter in a book called Critical Perspectives in […]

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