The Performance of Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in a Provincial Victorian Town: Nottingham and its New Theatre Royal, 1865

Robinson, Joanna

doi:10.7227/nctf.35.2.3

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“…When the 'New' Theatre Royal Nottingham opened in September 1865 the local press described the Charles J. Phipps designed venue as being 'on a scale of magnitude and elegance rivalled only by the first class theatres of Europe' (Nottingham and Midlands Counties Daily Express 25 September 1865). As previous research has shown (Robinson 2009(Robinson , 2010 the building of the theatre was not without controversy, but on the evening of its opening, it was reported by the Nottingham Journal that 'there never was a more brilliant auditory assembled in Nottingham'. The list of names and ticket purchasers that followed in the report suggests that much of the elite of the town were 6 indeed present, as well as what the writer described as 'an omnium gatherum of the lower classes [in the gallery] -a party of bricklayers at the front being particularly conspicuous' (30 September 1865).…”

Section: The Theatre Royal Nottingham: What's the Heritage?mentioning

confidence: 94%

Our Theatre Royal Nottingham: co-creation and co-curation of a digital performance collection with citizen scholars

Robinson

Carletti

2019

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

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While the major theatre collections of universities and libraries in the UK, Europe and the USA have been long established, and companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company or Ballet Rambert hold their own extensive archives, the past decade has seen increasing attention paid to the need to support smaller theatres in preserving their own records. At the same time, new collaborative practices have emerged in the curation of heritage, often drawing on digital media and technologies: community archives, heritage crowdsourcing, community-university partnerships evidence this participatory turn. This article reflects on an ongoing collaboration with the Theatre Royal Nottingham, UK, and volunteer researchers from the city, to preserve, order and digitally curate the theatre's 150-plus year history. The project builds on the potential of digital technologies -both to enhance participation and engagement and to most effectively capture and represent the interlinked stories and memories mobilized in the making and reception of theatrical performance. In reflecting on the successes and challenges of the project, we develop a model of what we term 'citizen scholarship' in arts and humanities research, which has enabled and supported meaningful and sustained engagement with the theatre's archive and heritage by community volunteers.

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Section: The Theatre Royal Nottingham: What's the Heritage?mentioning

confidence: 94%