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Andromeda: reflections on unproduction and new growth

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Breach Theatre awarded major grant

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Collaborating with Theatres Workshop

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Do you love me yet?

Eco-theatre and the Anthropocene: Katie Mitchell in conversation

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January 2024 update

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Prehension Blooms and RoboTIPS

Theatres Seed Fund: Report by Dr George Busby

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Theatres Seed Fund: Report by Dr Peter Hommel

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Theatres Seed Fund: Report by Hannah Greenstreet

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Theatres Seed Fund: Report by Prof Suzanne Aspden

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Using Lockdown

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Using theatre to improve children’s communication skills

News

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after birth: reflections on collaboration

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Behind the scenes of The Duchess of Malfi

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Creative Multilingualism funding opportunity for small creative projects

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HIGHLIGHTS – Life and Death at Offbeat Festival

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January 2024 update

Katie Mitchell to become first Visiting Fellow in Theatre

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New performance commission with Oxford Playhouse

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New Project Announcement: The Second Oxford Sanskrit Play: How Urvashi Was Won

Artists' impression of the Schwarzmann Centre, a pale stone building with large windows, a series of archways, and surrounding greenery

Oxford University receives planning permission for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

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Oxfordshire theatres rise to the tempestuous times

Reimagining Performance Graduate Essay Prize: The Winners!

Flyer for ROAR Festival 2021 that has a Disabled Lion on it

ROAR Festival 2021 - inclusive arts across the city and beyond

John Falsetto holding the mbira and singing on a sunny day in front of the Radcliffe Observatory

Schwarzman Centre Site Celebration

Portrait shots of eight people, two of them women holding instruments.

Stellar advisory council announced for Oxford University's Humanities Cultural Programme

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The Alternative Queen's Speech: an opera in the making

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Theatre in the time of Covid

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Theatres Seed Fund News 2019-2020

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TORCH Theatres Seed Fund: Award Winners Announced

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TORCH Theatres Seed Fund: New Fund to Support Research-Led Theatre Collaborations

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Welcoming Lolita Chakrabarti as our next Visiting Fellow

Opportunities

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TORCH Theatres Seed Fund

Events

In Conversation with Katie Mitchell, Fiona Stafford & Catherine Love

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A Farewell to Zoom?

Online - YouTube

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Adapting Anthropocene to an interactive experience

Actress playing Alice in Wonderland reaches through a small door

Adventures in digital: making performance in lockdown

after birth

The North Wall Arts Centre

Annual Lecture 2023: Staging Race in Shakespeare’s Theatres

Fitzhugh Auditorium, Oxford

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Anthropocene

Black British Theatre Today: A Roundtable

St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford, OX2 6GG

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Blizzard @ The Soho Theatre

The Soho Theatre

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Blue/Orange - Post-show panel discussion

Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford

CANCELLED: after birth at VAULT Festival

The Vaults, Leake St, London, SE1 7NN

Event poster for gig at Old Fire Station 26 February 2022

Cantat Ergo Sumus at the Old Fire Station

Old Fire Station, George St, Oxford

Portrait painting of King Henry the Eight

Creation Theatre explore Henry VIII

Creative Minds: Exploring the Relationship between Theatre-Makers and Research

Cornerstone arts centre, Didcot and St Luke's Chapel, Oxford

Two old statues re-coloured in bright pink and blue against a green backdrop

Do You Love Me Yet: Q & A with the creators

Two old statues re-coloured in bright pink and blue against a green backdrop

Do You Love Me Yet?

Duchess of Malfi

Ed Gaughan: Words and Music

Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ

Everyone on stage: inclusive arts panel

Online (webinar)

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Exploring the value of collaborating with theatres

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Fragments: A Drama Writing Workshop for 14-18 year olds

Pegasus Theatre

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Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw

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In Conversation with Lolita Chakrabarti

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In Conversation: Dr Jack Matthews and Oxford Printmakers Co-operative

The North Wall Arts Centre, S Parade, Oxford OX2 7JN

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In Conversation: Jasmine Lee-Jones and Ella Hickson

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It Sings Therefore We Are: Philosophy and Music in Conversation

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It'll never work on Zoom: learnings in online participation

Kafka's Ape

Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ

Live Music at Hogacre: Paul Lodge & Flights of Helios

Hogacre Common Eco Park

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Mike Bartlett: A Conversation

The Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AQ

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Molière on stage. Lesson in interpretation: Ariane Mnouchkine in Conversation with Wes Williams

Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall

A dancer strikes a pose against a vivid red, orange and yellow wall

Moving Together: Online Dance Flashmob

Dancer reaches for the ground in an urban alleyway

Moving Together: Short Film Premiere and Q&A

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My Name is Laura Kieler: A Work-in-Progress discussion with Breach Theatre

St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford, OX2 6GG

A dancer silhouetted against a large, purple, transparent, glowing egg shape, with arms outstretched.

Neon Dance: Prehension Blooms

Oxford Playhouse lit in red in July 2020

Never such innocence: what theatre lost in 2020

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Online hip hop programme for 11-16s

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Performing Production: From Ores to Objects

Wytham Woods, Sawmill Yard, Wytham, Oxford OX2 8QQ

Portrait of Anthony Roth Constanzo

Performing the Past: Modern Opera and Ancient Egypt

Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

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Q&A with Lolita Chakrabarti

Free Online Event

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Q&A: Sustainable Theatre and Environmental Action

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Red Velvet masterclass with Lolita Chakrabarti

Free Online Event

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Rewind with post-show Q&A

In person | The North Wall, South Parade, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7JN

So You Want to Work in Theatre?

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG

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SOLD at Trinity College

Trinity College, Oxford

Still Breathing

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG

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Still Breathing 2022

Sheldonian Theatre

Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, with St Hilda's College reflected in the glass

The Alternative Queen's Speech: Work in Progress

Jacqueline Du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford

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The Girl In The Dog

The Woodshed, The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP

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The Mountaintop: Open Rehearsal and Discussion

St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6HT

Poster for The Revival of Huntly Carter, a workshop performance from Menagerie Theatre Company.

The Revival of Huntly Carter: Workshop Performance

Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AW

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The Second Oxford Sanskrit Play: How Urvashi Was Won

Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, Oxford

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Theatre Workshop: Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage

English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UL

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TORCH Presents: Life and Death at the Offbeat Festival

Old Fire Station, 40 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ

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TORCH Workshop: Collaborating with Theatres

St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Humanities

trade and Post Show Q&A with Dr Pelagia Goulimari

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Webinar: How to use stories to measure impact

Opportunities

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Humanities Cultural Programme - Visiting Fellowship Call (Michaelmas 2022)

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2022 - 2023 | BFI - TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

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2022 - 2023 | Brookes - TORCH Creative Industries Collaboration

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2022 - 2023 | TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

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2022 - 2023 | TORCH Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund

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2023 - 2024 | TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

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Call for Papers: Meaningful Evaluation in the Performing Arts

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Call for Students! Ashmolean: After Hours – Pharoah Friday

Coming soon: The BRIDGE Fellowship Programme: Visiting Fellowship at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, in association with TORCH

Coming soon: The BRIDGE Fellowship Programme: Visiting Fellowship at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, in association with TORCH

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Creative Multilingualism funding opportunity for small creative projects

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Cultural Programme Open Call 2023/24

connecting researchers with oxfordshire theatres

Engaging with Theatres

Geoffrey Garton Creative Arts Fellowship in Performing Arts 2021 (non-academic)

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Humanities Cultural Programme - Project Funding Call (Hilary Term 2023)

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Humanities Cultural Programme - Project Funding Call (Michaelmas Term 2022)

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Humanities Cultural Programme - Visiting Fellowship Call (Hilary 2023)

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Humanities Cultural Programme Open Call 2022/23

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Knowledge Exchange Coordinator

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Present at Ark T Hub Days: 2024

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Theatres Seed Fund 2019-2020

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TORCH Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund | 2021-22

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TORCH | 2022 - 2023 | Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

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VACANCY: Part-time Project Officer

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Vacancy: Shaping Destiny Project Officer

Workshop Feb 2020

Writing for the Stage Workshop

Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Rd

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Writing for the Stage Workshops

Oxford and Bicester

Documents

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Theatres Seed Fund Guidelines 2019-2020

Medias

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Black British Theatre Today: A Roundtable

Post-Show Conversations: Cyrano de Bergerac

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Post-show Conversations: Much Ado About Nothing

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Post-show Conversations: Private Lives

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Post-Show Conversations: Scandaltown

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Post-Show Conversations: When We Dead Awaken

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The Alternative Queen's Speech: an opera in the making

projects

2014-15: Medea

Dr Lucy Jackson in collaboration with: The National Theatre

2014-15: The Folio of the Future

Professor Emma Smith in collaboration with: The Royal Shakespeare Company

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2014-15: Theatre Production and Performance

Professor Ros Ballaster in collaboration with: The Royal and Derngate Theatre

Demons Land: A Poem Come True

2015-16: Demons Land: A Poem Come True

Professor Simon Palfrey in collaboration with: Magdalen Road Studios

2015-16: Staging Nahum Tate's King Lear

Professor Tiffany Stern in collaboration with: Hidden Room Theatre

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2015-16: Vehicles - Children's Opera

Professor Martyn Harry in collaboration with: Action Transport Theatre

2016-17: Recreating the Music of an Ancient Greek Chorus: Euripides' Orestes

Professor Armand D'Angour in collaboration with: Oxford Digital Media

2016-17: Transforming the Operatic Voice

Dr Toby Young in collaboration with: McCaldin Arts

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2017-18: Tellings: Reconstructing the Repertoire of Songs used in English Lace Schools

Professor David Hopkin in collaboration with: Museum of English Rural Life

Words as Weapons

2017-18: Words as Weapons

Professor Tom Kuhn in collaboration with: Sphinx Theatre | Crisis Skylight Oxford

2018-19 | Genomes: a promotional film for the play about the future of big data and medicine

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2018-19 | The Performance of Production

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2019-20 | Leaning In: Young People Bridging Science and Arts Through Theatre

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2019-20 | Moving together: Loneliness and connectivity

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2019-20 | The Andromeda Project | Phase 1

Group of five students, some standing and some sitting, in a classroom working on a project together

2019-20 | The Andromeda Project | Phase 2

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2020-20 | An Analysis of Post-Show Talks

2020-21 | After birth: A play about maternal mental health

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2020-21 | Cantat Ergo Sumus

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2020-21 | From the Page to the Stage: A Feasibility Study on using theatre to improve EAL children's communicative skills

2020-21 | Improving Young People's Mental Well-Being through a Dance Programme

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2020-21 | Power and Pain: Spectacles of Court Corruption on the Early Modern Stage

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2020-21 | Prehension Blooms

A performer looks into the camera, hand to chest. Backdrop is interior of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

2020-22 | Still Breathing

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2021-22 | CELL: Exploring New Theatre Visions of Julian of Norwich

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2021-22 | The Alternative Queen's Speech

Prof Fiona Macintosh in collaboration with Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Jeanne Pansard-Besson

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2022-23 | Out of the Archive onto the Stage: the Soviet Avant-Garde and its Reception in Britain

Prof Rebecca Beasley in collaboration with Menagerie Theatre Company

Storming Utopia

Professor Wes Williams in collaboration with: Pegasus Theatre