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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