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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 […]
Seeing Red – Melodramatics (part 1)
7:31 pm / no comments
Post by Jenny Hughes ‘Can everyone check they have their red bra please?’ – was the repeated appeal from director Lauren Ash in the final hours of the rehearsal of Seeing Red, an original drama exploring experiences of domestic violence, performed in the Bill Naughton Studio at the Octagon on 21st and […]
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 […]