Dramatizing Penshurst: "Love's Victory" and the Sidneys

"戏剧化彭赫斯特"带来了生活的西德尼家庭的显着文学史分期"爱的胜利"（1617年），由夫人玛丽沃思在她的家，彭赫斯特广场。沃思是罗伯特·西德尼的女儿，菲利普·西德尼爵士和玛丽·西德尼赫伯特的侄女，他们改变了16和17世纪的文学景观。彭赫斯特是传统中创新的熔炉，该项目通过排练和表演为公众再现了这种体验。它开创了Penshurst未来25年的战略，以利用该建筑的文化资本，持续利用历史文学文本来加深游客与过去的互动。 这部剧在创作400年后上演，推翻了弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的观点，即莎士比亚的任何姐妹都不可能写戏剧。这部由专业演员在彭赫斯特广场和坎特伯雷市中心新成立的马洛基特演出的作品将揭开一个"隐藏"的遗产：莎士比亚"姐妹"或当代女性剧作家的历史。这出戏几乎没有舞台历史的记录。公众将能够与莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》等戏剧一起评判它的价值。在彭赫斯特广场的排练和表演将使人们有机会第一次参加一个具有历史意义的家庭剧院。这种戏剧传统与莎士比亚的地球仪等专业城市剧院的戏剧传统截然不同，后者将女性演员和作家排除在外。马洛工具包的亲密，中世纪的场地将在城市的商业喧嚣中重现“私人”家庭表演的条件。节目将邀请不同年龄及背景的市民参与，包括免费讲座、多媒体工作坊及公开彩排等。那些访问Penshurst和马洛工具包将能够提供自己的剧本和其他西德尼著作的观点，通过与学术领袖，导演和表演口译员进行讨论。学术带头人将在麦德斯通的肯特历史和图书馆中心谈论西德尼手稿和肯特的女性写作。阅读或排练场景的房间和历史花园在彭赫斯特将提供演员和公众成员的一个高度感官体验，应该促使有关情感是如何产生的地方和过去的反思。参观彭赫斯特和马洛工具包的游客也将被鼓励创造性地作出反应，使用艺术，音乐，创造性写作。通过这些活动，游客将成为“爱的胜利”和彭赫斯特作为一个活的遗产地的表演的共同制片人。该项目有助于Penshurst和马洛的长期目标，以建立一个共同的文学过去的认识：深深植根于肯特景观，但具有国际范围，其文化意义继续到现在。为了接触到更广泛的公众谁是无法前往肯特，"戏剧化彭赫斯特"将提供一个虚拟的经验，共同生产过程在线。在彭赫斯特广场举行的"爱的胜利"表演将被专业拍摄，并通过该项目的网站免费提供。一个新的在线展览将举办剪辑的电影摘录，从排练，会谈，研讨会，写作的例子，关于彭赫斯特和西德尼和图像的历史遗址。人们对现场活动和彭赫斯特广场的创造性和反思性反应也将出现在在线展览中。项目将被选中在马洛工具包和后来在彭赫斯特广场物理展览。学术顾问将使用材料的档案，提供一个大规模的在线开放课程，以吸引世界各地的观众与写作的Wroth和与Penshurst广场的文学遗产在一个可访问的方式。

'Dramatizing Penshurst' brings to life the remarkable literary history of the Sidney family by staging 'Love's Victory' (1617), by Lady Mary Wroth at her home, Penshurst Place. Wroth was the daughter of Robert Sidney and niece of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, who transformed the literary landscape of the 16th and 17th centuries. Penshurst was a crucible for innovation amidst tradition, an experience which the project recreates for members of the public through rehearsals and performances. It inaugurates Penshurst's strategy for the next 25 years to leverage the house's cultural capital, making sustained use of a historic literary text to deepen visitor engagement with the past. Staging the play 400 years after it was composed disproves Virginia Woolf's view that any sister of Shakespeare could not have written drama. The production, performed by professional actors at Penshurst Place and in the newly-established Marlowe Kit in Canterbury City Centre, will uncover a 'hidden' heritage: the history of Shakespeare's 'sisters' or female contemporary dramatists. The play has almost no recorded stage history. The public will be able to judge its value alongside plays like Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. The rehearsals and performances at Penshurst Place will give people a chance to participate for the first time in a historically-informed piece of household theatre. This theatrical tradition was very different from that of the professional city playhouses like Shakespeare's Globe, from which female performers and writers were excluded. The intimate, medieval venue of the Marlowe Kit will recreate the conditions of a 'private' household performance amidst the commercial bustle of the city. Members of the public of all ages and backgrounds will be invited to contribute actively to the production process by attending free talks, multi-media workshops and open rehearsals leading up to the performances. Those visiting Penshurst and the Marlowe Kit will be able to offer their own perspectives on the script and other Sidney writings by engaging in discussion with the academic leader, the director and the performer-interpreters. The academic leader will talk about the Sidney manuscripts and women's writing from Kent at the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone. Reading or rehearsing scenes in the rooms and historic gardens at Penshurst will offer actors and members of the public a heightened sensory experience that should prompt reflections about how emotions are generated by places and by the past. Visitors to Penshurst and the Marlowe Kit will be encouraged to respond creatively too, using art, music, creative writing. Through such activities, visitors will become co-producers of the performances of 'Love's Victory' and of Penshurst as a living heritage site. The project contributes to Penshurst's and The Marlowe's long-term goals to build awareness of a shared literary past: deeply rooted in the Kentish landscape but with international scope, whose cultural significance continues to the present. To reach wider publics who are not able to travel to Kent, 'Dramatizing Penshurst' will offer a virtual experience of the co-production process online. A performance of 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst Place will be professionally filmed and made freely available via the project's website. A new on-line exhibition will host edited filmed extracts from the rehearsals, talks, workshops, examples of writing about Penshurst and by the Sidneys and images of the historical sites. People's creative and reflective responses to the live events and Penshurst Place will also feature in the online exhibition. Items will be selected for physical exhibitions at the Marlowe Kit and later at Penshurst Place. The academic advisor will use the archive of materials to offer a Massive Online Open Course to engage a worldwide audience with the writing of Wroth and with Penshurst Place's literary heritage in an accessible way.