pauper Archives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:28:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Love on the workhouse stage http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/love-on-the-workhouse-stage-in-copenhagen/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/love-on-the-workhouse-stage-in-copenhagen/#respond Wed, 28 May 2014 12:02:08 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=91 Post by Jenny Hughes The Pall Mall Gazette on 6 June 1900 included a slightly ‘arched’ report on the extraordinary care for the ‘aged poor’ in a workhouse in Copenhagen, who are provided with ‘a theatre of their own to which they may go in the evening’. To ensure readers […]

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