Materialities of Amateur Theatre

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Notes

1. Sherry Turkle, ‘Introduction: The Things That Matter’, in Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, ed. by Sherry Turkle (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 3–11, (p. 5).

2. Ibid.

3. Laurajane Smith, ‘The “Doing” of Heritage: Heritage as Performance’, in Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Development in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation, ed. by Anthony Jackson and Jenny Kidd (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), pp. 69–81 (p. 80).

4. Gay McAuley, ‘What Is Sydney about Sydney Theatre? Performance Space and the Creation of a “Matrix of Sensibility”’, in Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology, ed. by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 81–99 (pp. 81–82).

5. Ibid., p. 81.

6. Ibid., p. 82.

7. The Settlement Players formed in 1923 as part of the newly opened adult education centre called The Settlement which was based, at that time, in the Letchworth Museum. Whilst based here, the Settlement Players performed in various venues in and around Letchworth. However, in 1925 the Letchworth Adult Educational Settlement bought the old Skittles Inn and turned it into what is now known as The Settlement. The Settlement Players have performed here ever since.

8. Inge Horwood, Settlement Players Golden Jubilee Programme (1973), p. 1.

9. Ibid., p. 3.

10. Ibid., p. 15.

11. Gay McAuley, Not Magic but Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).

12. Ibid., p. 3.

13. Aoife Monks, The Actor in Costume (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 13.

14. Ibid., p. 14.

15. Ibid., p. 17.

16 See ‘Evocative Objects’, Amateur Drama Research <http://amateurdramaresearch.com/evocative-objects/> [accessed 16 November 2016].

17 The words in italics are some reflections from the field notes taken by Cara Gray and Sarah Penny on the day of the tour.