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Seeing Red – Melodramatics (part 2)

September 22, 2015 7:51 pm / no comments

Post by Jenny Hughes Thanks to the Melodramatics group for letting me sit in on some of their rehearsals towards their first piece of live performance, Seeing Red, which premiered in the Bill Naughton Studio Theatre of the Octagon Theatre on 21st September 2015 (see previous blog post ‘Seeing Red […]

Octagon Theatre, social housing and the uses of history

May 20, 2015 7:04 pm / no comments

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 […]

Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty

Archive for: community theatre

Seeing Red – Melodramatics (part 2)

Octagon Theatre, social housing and the uses of history