neoliberalism Archives - 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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]]> 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 Making theatre in the midst of austerity – SYMPOSIUM http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/making-theatre-in-the-midst-of-austerity-symposium/ Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:20:17 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=512 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 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/towards-theatre-commons/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/towards-theatre-commons/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:15:55 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=426 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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]]> http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/towards-theatre-commons/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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