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I have been awarded a grant for a project with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to begin on completion of my doctorate. This is a highly competative staff fund , for large-scale projects which support the university's teaching and learning strategy. I obtained this grant with the support of Cath Lambert. The title of the project is:   A retrospective study to ascertain the pedagogic benefits of research-led teaching   ‘Bearing witness to marginalised groups’   My research interest The Belgrade Theatre’s ‘bearing witness to marginalised groups’ programme aims to work with young people from diverse backgrounds. Each group works closely with a trained dramaturg e (a crafter of stories for the stage), sharing and shaping experiences into dramatic form. This offers young people an opportunity to reflect, share, rethink, and transform their stories. As post-war Coventry was rebuilt so was a theatre for the community ( t he Belgrade). The Council Statu...

The show got me during its final moments when the young people on the stage said to the audience 'you have a choice.' I was enjoying four young people's portrayal freedom riders in the US; riding the buses to protest against segregation. Part of me, however, wanted to hear another story: that of British segregation. It wasn't taught to me at school and still appears not to be. I only know it exists because of narrated life stories. It's a bit like the feeling I get when Black History Month comes around... my first question is always why? Not in the sense that it is a bad idea, but growing up in a multi-cultural society and having friends from a diverse range of countries and backgrounds, out with and inside the UK, I want to know why our History curriculum is not reflective of our society. The play reminded me of Mr Maxwell, the teacher with the cheeky opinions who pushed the boundaries of history. He asked the big questions. We got inside the poems of Maya Ange...

(based on the genius song "Agony" from Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim) Did I abuse this (educational opportunity) by showing distain? My brain’s feeling mashed up. I might just lose it; tormented I’m reeling from frontal lobe pain! Agony! VIVA’s out of my reach When you’ve had an idea Yet that idea it still defies speech Alone at my desk I sit by the hour Tearing my hair Tense and confused, frequently screaming A song of despair Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-                                          Agony!     Caught my tongue in a draw Trying to write is like trying To fight Je Suis Charlie , and more Agony!                      ...

An interdisciplinary discussion of the different way people go about doing collaborative theatre work. Talkers on the panel included Omar Elerian, Associate Director of the Bush Theatre, West London, Michael Bywater , and playwright James Wilson . Inua Ellams , who wrote 13 Fairy Negro Tales , started off the evening by performing one of his fabulous poems. The discussion was about finding form, a works shape, in order to tell stories in the theatre. As one person shared with the group, this can be a fine act, ‘Covered in honey wearing moustaches singing the blues, but it all made sense at the time.’ And surprisingly to the audience too! Sounds brilliant, wish I’d seen it. Sometimes in modern theatre the ideas that you are working with can be very fragmented especially in collaborations when people have different point of view. Theatre is an organic discourse with the audience. The work, Omar Elerian said, isn’t truly finished until the final curtain falls. Different a...