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Amateur performers in the workhouse
Post by Jenny Hughes This is a follow up to the post below … another debate about the ethical value of theatre in the workhouse, this time from 1894. It also provides a nice antidote to the Marylebone Guardians’ snubbing of amateur dramatics below! Here, the writer is concerned to […]
Should poor children be allowed to go to the pantomime?
Post by Jenny Hughes This question was debated by the Board of Guardians of the Withington workhouse in Manchester in 1881. In the latter part of the 19th century, there is a fair amount of evidence of performers of various stripes – singers, music hall entertainers, amateur groups, choirs, magicians, […]