St John Ervine: A playwright at war
Contributed by Andrew Maunder As the Finborough Theatre in London stages a new production of St John Ervine’s 1913 powerful suffrage play Jane Clegg, it’s worth thinking more about the play’s Ulster-...
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John Galsworthy revisited
Contributed by Andrew Maunder As the Finborough Theatre revives John Galsworthy’s comedy Windows as part of its Great War 100 series, it’s worth thinking more about the play’s Nobel Prize-winning aut...
Macbeth for the masses: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Shakespeare on film...
Contributed by Andrew Maunder “War itself is horrible but the misfortune it brings helps a man to find his soul” – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 18 April 1915. The British Film Institute’s new DVD of ...
J.M. Barrie’s A Well Remembered Voice on tour
Contributed by Andrew Maunder Our production of J.M. Barrie’s play about spiritualism, A Well Remembered Voice, is heading out on tour in autumn 2016. A co-production with IO Theatre, it combi...
Premiere screening of Meeting in No Man’s Land
Michael Roper, 5th July 2016 The Age Exchange film of Meeting in No Man’s Land will premiere this Friday at the British Film Institute, to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the batt...
Voices of the Great War, Lakeside Theatre
Contributed by Rachel Duffett – 27th May It was fascinating to watch theatre practitioners and drama students gather together in the Lakeside Theatre last week to embark on the ‘Voices of the G...
Finding Your Voice: A creative writing workshop inspired by Hertfords...
This creative writing workshop led by poet, Chris Tutton, takes inspiration from the courage of those who refused conscription during the Great War. By looking at original documents in the archive yo...
Researching Actors and Military Service
In this account, Andrew Maunder, who is researching actors and music-hall performers who served in the forces, describes some of the issues which have emerged over the course of his enquiries. He wou...
A community collaboration. Wheathampstead’s War.
Across the country, local researchers are collecting stories about their communities during the First World War. In this article, Terry Pankhurst tells how the research that he and his wife, Margaret...
New Book Just Published: British Theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919
Palgrave Macmillan has just published this new collection of essays edited by Andrew Maunder of the Centre for Everyday Lives in War. Contributors to the book discuss the roles played by the theatre ...