Liverpool Everyman Theatre Archive Project
Respondent or information from other source:None received. Info taken from website
Aims, policies, purpose/impetus for project:
This project compiled an online Catalogue of the Archive of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, which, since its foundation in 1964, has been one of Britain's leading regional theatres, playing an important national role in encouraging new writing, fostering the careers of key directors, actors and writers and developing theatre in education. Cataloguing, conserving, and filling gaps in the existing archive holdings, the project also carried out thirty video history interviews with key figures in the theatre's history.
Dates:
Key individuals and roles involved: Ros Merkin, Kate Dorney:
Paid or voluntary, training in oral history:
Project funded by:
AHRC Resource Enhancement Scheme:
Management of project:
Liverpool John Moores University Drama Department and Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History
Format of interviews:
How interviewees are selected and located key figures in the theatre's history.
Interview running time:
Copyright in interviews. Assignment rights?:
Location of interview copies. Accessibility to public/format:
Collection contact details/website:
Interview transcripts/lists of topics or other content indexes:
Cataloguing: Everyman Theatre Archive
Future plans for project/interviews?:
Materials used for publications, exhibitions, conferences, radio/TV programmes or performances etc or future plans for this?:
A conference in 2006 contextualising regional theatre led to Ros Merkin and Kate Dorney's The Glory of the Garden: Regional Theatre in England since 1984 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).
The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: an Electronic Catalogue of its Archive and Associated Developments" (with Dr Ros Merkin, Drama; 2004-7)
Project website: Everyman Theatre Archive
List on a joint (possibly STR) website: Yes/No
Join listserv/emailing list/forum: Yes/No
Further information:
List of interviewees provided: No
Oral History Survey Pages Main Page Introductory Report Index of Projects Appendices
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28th April 2009 |
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