missions Archives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:26:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Temperance drama and the poor http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/temperance-drama-and-the-poor/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:43:22 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=558 Post by Jenny Hughes I’ve been looking at temperance entertainments in a Rochdale workhouse in the 1880s – as part of a broader project to explore what can be learnt about the early histories of ‘social theatre’ or ‘applied theatre’ from theatrical engagements with the poor in 19th century workhouses […]

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