Storytelling and New Audiences
“Dramatic, witty, energetic” all terms used by reviewers to describe our play, "Women of Aktion", that would not normally be applied to an academic paper...
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Changing the Narrative
The First World War ended at 11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Germans surrendered. We won game,...
Reflections on Collaboration
Ingrid Sharp shares what she has learnt from collaborative working Learning is a two-way process – it’s not ever been a matter of feeding my...
Gendering the WW1 Centenary
Can we challenge dominant cultural myths through collaboration and conversation beyond the academy? Ingrid Sharp reflects: Despite the important historiography published in the last thirty...
Women of Aktion or Oh What a Lovely Revolution...
An exciting new play, written by Bent Architect using research from our AHRC funded project. It's the 1930's and a young Joan Littlewood has walked...
Why this Story, Why Now?
The theatre industry is changing, partly a result of Arts Council funding cuts (blame the gov’t) but also there seems to be a shift on...
Unlocking the Story
For all that the history and the first hand material we have been looking at is utterly fascinating, it felt like just dramatizing the material...
Project Beginnings
The First World War cannot be said to have lacked coverage of late, and perhaps it’s no surprise that the bulk of it is on...