RAT Theatre Archive Project

Respondent or information from other source:
Prof Mike Pearson, Organiser

Aims, policies, purposel:
To identify and animate the dispersed archive of RAT Theatre
To undertake a memory project with surviving members of RAT Theatre

impetus for project:: The death of RAT director Peter Sykes

Dates:
July 2007 workshop as part of CPR Summer Academy, Aberystwyth University
November 2007 one-day symposium, Aberystwyth University
On-going

Key individuals and roles involved:
Mike Pearson with help on symposium from 2 PhD students

Paid or voluntary, training in oral history: Voluntary. No training.

Project funded by: Grant of £500 from STR

Management of project: Dept. of Theatre, Film and television, Aberystwyth University

Format of interviews:
Symposium and workshop on mini DV
Also full versions on DVD from Arts Archive, Exeter University

How interviewees are selected and located:
Call via SCUDD and personal contacts

Interview running time: Symposium approx 6 hours

Copyright in interviews. Assignment rights?: n/a

Location of interview copies. Accessibility to public/format:
Workshop and public symposium recorded.
Not currently available

Collection contact details/website: No

Interview transcripts/lists of topics or other content indexes: No

Cataloguing: No

Future plans for project/interviews?:
Yes. To locate and copy further archival material.
To present work-demonstration at British Grotowski Project, June 2009

Materials used for publications, exhibitions, conferences, radio/TV programmes or performances etc or future plans for this?:
Yes. Recordings of workshop and symposium available from Arts archive, Exeter University

Project website: No

List on a joint (possibly STR) website: Yes

Join listserv/emailing list/forum: Yes

Further information: SC Note: Brith Gof project recordings are group sessions, not individual interviews

List of interviewees provided: No



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11th May 2009

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