social theatre Archives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:26:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 ‘Conversation is an activity to be valued in itself – not just for where it may lead’ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/conversation-is-an-activity-to-be-valued-in-itself-not-just-for-where-it-may-lead/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:00:42 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=776 We are pleased to publish a ‘guest post’ by Lauren Ash – currently an MA Theatre and Performance student at the University of Manchester. Lauren completed a placement with the Learning & Participation Department at the Octagon Theatre (Bolton), working closely with Melodramatics – the women’s theatre group in New […]

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]]> 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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