Festival Theatre 2017 - "The Burnley Buggers' Ball" & "Burnley's Lesbian Liberator"
This post by Stephen M Hornby, our National Theatre Coordinator, continues our catalogue of Festival Theatre.
2017 marked the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, which partially decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales. In 2007, the 40th anniversary saw two dramatisations to mark the ocassion, one about the Wolfenden Committee, and one about the Monatgu case.
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Festival Theatre 2016 “Mister Stokes: The Man-Woman of Manchester”
This post by National Theatre Coordinator Stephen M Hornby continues our catalogue of Festival Theatre.
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Festival Theatre 2016: “Devils in Human Shape”
Stephen M Hornby, our National Theatre Coordinator, continues his cataloguing of Festival Theatre with a look at Tom Marshman‘s 2016 piece “Devils in Human Shape”.
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Festival Theatre 2015: “A Very Victorian Scandal”
Stephen M Hornby, our National Festival Theatre Coordinator, continues his cataloguing of Festival Theatre with a look at the first example, “A Very Victorian Scandal”.
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Festival Theatre 2014: The Beginnings
This post by, National Theatre Coordinator Stephen M Hornby, looks at the genesis of what we now term “Festival Theatre.”
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