Pantomime in Scotland: 'Your other national theatre'

苏格兰哑剧：“你的另一个国家剧院”

• 批准号: AH/E008062/1
• 负责人: Adrienne Scullion
• 金额: $ 54.27万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE008062%2F1
• 关键词: Pantomime; Scotland; Your; other; national

This project will interrogate pantomime in Scotland at a critical juncture: when it is possible to record the memories of the generation who experienced the interwar hey-day of Scottish pantomime; and, to analyse this popular theatre phenomenon while it is still a functioning commercial form. The project will seek to capture information on the history and contemporary manifestations of professional/commercial pantomime as well as community/amateur pantomime in urban and rural areas. It will address image, representation, identity; memory, recollection, history; economics, industry, infrastructure.The project is framed by a literature review, theoretical conceptualisation and archive research in which pantomime's development without as well as within Scotland is set against a number of critical frameworks: popular culture; gender; local/regional appeal; diaspora; and, national profile.The project will analyse archive holdings in Scotland and London. It will undertake new primary research, creating qualitative and quantitative data sets, with the former achieved via a nationally scoped oral history programme. Involving audience members and practitioners, oral history research will capture the collective experience of pantomime in Scotland across all its aspects, from memories of the large-scale professional spectaculars of the interwar years to those of school and community productions today. While the interview project will include all age groups, its particular imperative is the urgent need to capture and preserve memories of the generation who grew up in the 1920s and 30s. Their recollections of the experience of popular theatre-going in the interwar period will constitute a unique resource for future theatre historians and popular culture researchers which will be lost forever unless captured now. Group and individual interviews with audiences will be conducted over the pantomime seasons 2007-08/2008-09 at locations across Scotland. One to one semi-structured interviews with key practitioners will run in parallel, as will a short programme of platform discussions with professional performers ('An audience with').A second strand is a national pantomime census. The project will use a number of quantitative strategies to document the range of current pantomime activity (professional and amateur), generating new data that will inform the evaluation of pantomime's scale and economic impact. Information will be provided through partnerships with professional managements (eg Ambassador Theatre Group), local authorities, and arts organisations such as Promoters' Arts Network (rural promoters' agency), Highlands and Islands Arts, Scottish Community Drama Association, National Operatic and Dramatic Association, and Scottish Arts Council.These new data sets, to be deposited with AHDS, will form major new resources essential to this project but of wider relevance to researchers of popular culture, social history, community arts and to industry personnel and policy makers.The project is distinguished by a commitment to non-traditional as well as traditional outputs that aim to promote a wider public appreciation of pantomime's contribution to Scottish theatre culture. In addition to scholarly publications / co-authored book, academic conference, co-edited collection of essays / the dissemination of the project's outcomes will take advantage of pantomime's popular appeal through initiatives including: a touring exhibition, in association with Scottish Theatre Archive, accompanied by talks and screenings of archive films, promoted in theatres and town halls across Scotland; an interactive website with the facility to access streamed extracts from the oral history programme and for subjects to volunteer themselves for interview; a DVD of archive films, issued in association with Scottish Screen, featuring rehearsals of Scottish pantomines, 1931-51; a popular history book.

该项目将在一个关键时刻对苏格兰的哑剧进行审问：记录经历了两次世界大战期间苏格兰哑剧全盛时期的那一代人的记忆；并在这种流行的戏剧现象仍然是一种正常运作的商业形式时对其进行分析。该项目将设法收集关于城市和农村地区专业/商业哑剧以及社区/业余哑剧的历史和当代表现的信息。它将涉及形象、表现、身份；记忆、回忆、历史；经济、工业、基础设施。该项目的框架是文献综述、理论概念化和档案研究，其中哑剧在苏格兰内外的发展参照了一系列关键框架：流行文化；性别；地方/地区吸引力；侨民；以及国家概况。该项目将分析苏格兰和伦敦的档案收藏。它将进行新的初步研究，创建定性和定量的数据集，前者通过全国范围的口述历史方案实现。包括观众和从业者在内的口述历史研究将捕捉苏格兰哑剧的所有方面的集体经历，从两次世界大战期间的大型专业奇观的记忆到今天的学校和社区制作的记忆。虽然采访项目将包括所有年龄段的人，但它尤其迫切需要捕捉和保存20世纪20年代和30年代长大的一代人的记忆。他们对两次世界大战期间流行戏剧经历的回忆将成为未来戏剧历史学家和流行文化研究人员的独特资源，除非现在捕捉到，否则这些资源将永远丢失。对观众的集体和个人采访将在2007-08/2008-09年间在苏格兰各地进行。与主要从业者的一对一半结构化采访将同时进行，与专业表演者(观众)进行平台讨论的简短节目也将同时进行。第二部分是全国哑剧普查。该项目将使用一些量化战略来记录当前哑剧活动的范围(专业和业余)，产生新的数据，为评估哑剧的规模和经济影响提供信息。信息将通过与专业管理层(如大使剧院集团)、地方当局和艺术组织的伙伴关系来提供，例如推广人艺术网络(农村推广人机构)、高地和岛屿艺术、苏格兰社区戏剧协会、国家歌剧和戏剧协会以及苏格兰艺术委员会。这些将存放在AHDS的新数据集将形成对该项目至关重要的主要新资源，但对流行文化、社会史、该项目的特点是致力于非传统和传统产出，旨在促进更广泛的公众欣赏哑剧对苏格兰戏剧文化的贡献。除了学术出版物/合著书籍、学术会议、共同编辑的散文集/散文集外，传播该项目成果的活动还包括：与苏格兰剧院档案馆合作举办巡回展，伴随讲座和放映档案电影，在苏格兰各地的剧院和市政厅推广；建立互动网站，提供口述历史方案的连续摘录和让受试者自愿接受采访；与苏格兰银幕合作发行一张档案电影DVD，其中收录1931-1951年苏格兰哑剧的彩排。