Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of the
Alternative Theatre Movement is continuing to develop, with further interviews
and plans to launch our major web site later in the year.
As part of that development we are keen to discover
more about who is teaching alternative theatre in British - and international -
universities.
Our concentration is on the period, roughly
1968-1988 though the earlier 1960s are also of interest and we are looking at
companies, venues, support organisations, key individuals, events,
shows and debates across the alternative theatre movement along with
working processes onstage and off, audiences, funding etc, documenting the work
of this period and mapping archival resources. Alternative theatre as a category
is partly self-defined by those who submitted entries for the various
Alternative Theatre Directories but would include political theatre, black and
Asian theatre, women's / feminist theatre, experimental, physical and visual,
community theatre, Disabled work, TIE/ YPT, new writing companies, street
theatre and the work of many performance artists.
So...
if you teach courses or modules addressing any of
those areas of work, roughly in that time-frame, in terms of theory,
history, practices, documentation strategies, if you are a practitioner whose
approach is strongly informed by that period, we'd be very please to
hear from you.
Unfinished Histories look forward to hearing
from you.
