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Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity

admin-poor — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:49:23 +0000

Here’s a blog about the ‘Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity‘ symposium by Jenny Hughes, originally written for Policy@Manchester and published here In his book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth summarises an economic policy of austerity as: “a morality play, one that has shifted the blame […]

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Making theatre in the midst of austerity

admin-poor — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:57:53 +0000

A one-day symposium on theatre, poverty and inequality Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester The Martin Harris Centre is building number 42 on the campus map available here – www.manchester.ac.uk/maps 4 November 2015 FULL PROGRAMME 9am: Registration, with coffee and tea 9.30 – 10.45: Welcome and keynote session 1: John McGrath & […]

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A unique partnership between a regional theatre and social housing

admin-poor — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 11:50:45 +0000

Post by Jenny Hughes In this two minute clip, Roddy Gauld summarises the partnership between the Octagon Theatre – a major regional theatre – and Bolton at Home – a social housing provider responsible for 18,000 homes across Bolton (a town in the North of England). Roddy describes the responsibility […]

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Making theatre in the midst of austerity – SYMPOSIUM

admin-poor — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:20:17 +0000

A symposium on theatre, poverty and inequality Wednesday 4th November 2015 Martin Harris Centre of Music and Drama, University of Manchester (UK) Including the premiere of The House, a solo performance by Carran Waterfield, Triangle Theatre Call for contributions Deepening economic inequality has been identified as one of the most […]

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Towards a theatre commons

admin-poor — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:15:55 +0000

This is the first of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – by Jenny Hughes ‘The commons’ is a term that describes things that are organised in ways that hold them open and make them available for common use. Commons can be material (places, people, things), social (relationships, networks), cultural (values, […]

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