A one-day workshop at the University of Bristol
26th April 2019
This one-day workshop addresses collaborations between academic history, heritage, and theatre.
Such collaborations have been of obvious interest to heritage organizations, as a way of communicating the past to diverse publics. Theatre performances have also become a well-established route to ‘impact’ for academic researchers, while some forms of playwrighting, such as the ‘theatre of the real’, and ‘documentary’ or ‘verbatim theatre’ have moved ever closer to the methods and sources of historical research. Collaborations can become research processes in their own rights, as creative practitioners and researchers learn from one another.
This one-day workshop brings together playwrights, historians, and theatre professionals. Themes for discussion include:
Theatre as practice-based historical research
The ethics of staging histories
Historical performance as entertainment
Definitions of ‘truthfulness’ and accuracy in theatrical performances
The functions and purposes of performing histories
Interactive histories
Musical theatre, dance…
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Will Pooley 