Surnames B

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Mrs Jean Napier BAKER
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent

• Popular theatre, music hall in Folkestone, Kent, 1700-1900 (approx).

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Olive BALDWIN and Thelma WILSON
oliveandthelma@baldwin-wilson.eclipse.co.uk

• English stage singers and theatre music, 1660-1800

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Sue BARBOUR
15 Green Lane
Wootton
Northampton
NN4 6LH

sbigboot@gmail.com

• My research interest is primarily 'Variety Theatre' but also Revue, Pantomime, Production shows, Music Hall and all other forms of light entertainment.
• I am currently working on "The effects of a life in Variety Theatre on Performers", 'Children of Variety' and managements (1945-1968).

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Jason BARNES
jasonbarnesnt@compuserve.com

• Theatre Architecture.
  
• Music Hall.
  
• Theatre Engineering.

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Peter BASSETT
Appletrees
Brown's Lane
Storrington
West Sussex RH20 4LQ

peterb2@tinyworld.co.uk

• The Staging of Romantic Ballet, especially in Her Majesty's Theatre, London, the Paris Opera, and the Theatre Royal, Copenhagen.
• Theatre Buildings.
• All forms of dance and theatrical movement

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Christopher BEECHING & Glyn JONES
Vamos 73008
Chania
Crete
Greece

caabvamos@grecian.net

• The life and career of the Music Hall artiste George Leybourne [Champagne Charlie] 1842-1884
  
• The writing and performance of a one-man show based on his life and music
  
• The writing of his biography, based on a considerable archive of material about him (including examples of approximately 75% of the large number of songs he sang, both in original and photocopy form, and charts covering every week of his life, with the venues he played, times of appearance, songs sung, the state of his health etc.) giving a detailed picture of the working life of the man who was arguably the first 'Super Star'.

• We are always eager to hear of the whereabouts of some of the more obscure songs - particularly copies that include the music. These songs include: ALAS POOR GHOST, THE YOUNG CARPENTIER or CHISEL, CHISEL, THE DONKEY RIFLE CORPS, THE BEAUTIFUL 2/- TEA, AND CAPTAIN OF THE MOUCHERS.

We are grateful to the STR for the Research Grant they awarded us during the second phase of our work.

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Michael BLACKWELL
1 Keswick Close
NORWICH
Norfolk NR4 6UW

tel: 01603504248
email: blackwellnorwich@btinternet.com

• My general research interest is the history of theatre in the city of Norwich. My particular focus is on the history of the Norwich Theatre Royal in the 18th and 19th centuries. I'd be very grateful to hear from other researchers who have found references to playing in Norwich left by actors or other theatre people.

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Caroline BLOMFIELD
7 Leighborne Park
Kew
Surrey TW9 3HB

david.blomfield@virgin.net

• The Bancrofts and John Hare
• The Prince of Wales's Theatre

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Dr Peter BOENISCH
University of Kent
School of Drama
Eliot College
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NS

P.M.Boenisch@kent.ac.uk
tel: 01227 823517

• Theatre Dramaturgy
  
• Contemporary European Theatre
  
• Innovative concepts of directing textx for theatre
  
• Dance, physical theatre, bodies in performance
  
• Theatre and intermediality
  
• Restoration and 17thC English theatr
  
• Theatre histories of Germany, Flanders and the Netherlands

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Ted BOTTLE
114 Meadow Lane
Coalville
Leics LE67 4DP

footlights2@yahoo.co.uk

• Theatre buildings, especially those of the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
  
• Large collection of interior and backstage photographic slides taken in about 200 Edwardian and Victorian theatres, many now demolished.
• Publication: "Coventry's Forgotten Theatre" (Badger Press 2004)

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Kevin BOWERS
email: kebowers@sympatico.ca

• Theatre in Stafford

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John BOYES-WATSON
9, Pinewood Grove
Earlsden
Coventry CV5 6QB

• Ellen Terry and her friends and relations.

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Nicholas BROMLEY
Worth Lodge
Witnesham
Nr Ipswich
Suffolk IP69BZ

nicholas.bromley@zen.co.uk

Samuel Foote (1721-1777)

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Kate BROWN
20 Oakcroft Road
Lewisham
London SE13 7ED

helicon@cockaigne.org.uk

• Opera, theatre, dance, particularly 1600 - 1830
  
• Performance history and practice, with focus on baroque/ classical acting theory and practice 1600 - 1830
  
• Theatre architecture and machinery of all periods

Website: www.cockaigne.org.uk

Shirley BROWN
essaybrown@hotmail.com

Publications:
The Bristol Theatre Royal - the continuing story 1966-93 in Scenes from Provincial Stages (1994, STR anthology tribute to Kathleen Barker, author of the definitive work on The Theatre Royal Bristol 1766-1966)
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the first 50 years 1946-1996 (1996, BOVTS Productions)
At present researching the history of the the Bristol Old Vic Company since 1946.

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Alanah BUCK

• Minor Victorian actors and stage managers (1840-1900). Particularly John Price Edwards, his son James Carter and daughter Bessie and Charles Cowdery Snr and his son Charles Albert Jnr.

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Michael BURDEN
New College
Oxford OX1 3BN

michael.burden@new.ox.ac.uk

• Regina Mingotti
• Staging Opera in London
• Metastasio
• The history of the Italian Opera aria

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Lionel BURMAN
12 Albert Road
West Kirby
Wirral
Cheshire CH48 0RS

L.A.Burman@liverpool.ac.uk

• The long 18thC: theatre and stage design; graphic art (fine and decorative)

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Alan BUTLAND
Old School House
South Broomhill
Morpeth
Northumberland  NE65 9RR

abutland@hotmail.co.uk
01670 762083

• Shakespeare in performance (member of the Shakespeare Globe Council)
• Theatre and music hall in the 19thC
• Theatre architecture, especially Victorian
• Open stage theatre

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16th April 2011

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