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-...
Tag Archives: theatre
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...
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...
Back to the Front Project – Handmaidens of Death
As part of the Abbot’s Langley’s ‘Back to the Front’ project the Flatpack Theatre Company will be performing Herbert Tremaine’s Handmaidens of Death, a First World War play which deals with the exper...
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...
Gertrude Jennings: Human Comedy Human Conflict
Barry Edwards has been researching the life and work of playwright Gertrude Jennings. She was a successful writer whose plays have been unjustly neglected since the peak of her fame in the first thir...
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...
The Important Man in a White Coat
Working with University of Hertfordshire’s Professor Owen Davies, Newcastle-based Cap-a-Pie developed a new theatre piece inspired by Everyday Lives in War. Cap a Pie chose to explore the role ...
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 ...