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Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity

admin-poor — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:49:23 +0000

Here’s a blog about the ‘Making Theatre in the Midst of Austerity‘ symposium by Jenny Hughes, originally written for Policy@Manchester and published here In his book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth summarises an economic policy of austerity as: “a morality play, one that has shifted the blame […]

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The Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam: A theatre commons in action?

admin-poor — Mon, 25 May 2015 16:33:21 +0000

We are very pleased to include this guest blog post from Hebe Reilly – MA Applied Theatre student at the University of Manchester. The post arises from her MA research on theatre commons in India and the UK. When reading Jenny Hughes’ posts on the theatre commons I began contemplating my […]

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A list of resources useful for beginning to think about a theatre commons

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:50:40 +0000

This is the final of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons, written by Jenny Hughes. This one is a list of resources … Commons on the net David Bollier’s blog The Commoner On the Commons Howlaround – a commons by and for people who make performance International Association for the […]

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8 steps towards a theatre commons: 5 to 8

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:48:09 +0000

This is the third of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – written by Jenny Hughes Here’s the next post about a ‘theatre commons’ – ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons: 5 to 8’. See ‘Towards a theatre commons’ and ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons: 1 to 4′ for the first two. 5. […]

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8 steps towards a theatre commons: 1 to 4

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:17:20 +0000

This is the second of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – written by Jenny Hughes Here’s a second post about a ‘theatre commons’ – ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons’. I am posting the first 4 steps only here and 4 more will follow soon. See ‘Towards a theatre […]

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Towards a theatre commons

admin-poor — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:15:55 +0000

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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