Pantomime in Scotland: 'Your other national theatre'

这个项目将在一个关键的时刻质问苏格兰的哑剧：什么时候有可能记录经历了两次世界大战之间苏格兰哑剧鼎盛时期的一代人的记忆；并且，分析这种流行的戏剧现象，同时它仍然是一种有效的商业形式。该项目将设法收集有关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形式的信息。它将讨论形象，表现，身份；记忆，回忆，历史；经济，工业，基础设施。该项目由文献综述、理论概念化和档案研究构成，其中哑剧在苏格兰内外的发展是针对一些关键框架设定的：流行文化；性别;地方/区域吸引力;移民;还有，国家概况。该项目将分析苏格兰和伦敦的档案馆藏。它将进行新的初级研究，建立定性和定量数据集，前者通过全国范围的口述历史方案实现。口述历史研究涉及观众和从业者，将从各个方面捕捉到苏格兰哑剧的集体经验，从两次世界大战期间的大型专业表演到今天的学校和社区演出。虽然采访项目将包括所有年龄段的人，但它的当务之急是迫切需要捕捉和保存在20世纪20年代和30年代长大的那一代人的记忆。他们对两次世界大战期间大众看戏经历的回忆将为未来的戏剧史学家和大众文化研究者提供独特的资源，除非现在抓住这些资源，否则这些资源将永远失去。在2007-08/2008-09年的哑剧季期间，将在苏格兰各地对观众进行集体和个人采访。与主要从业者进行一对一的半结构化访谈将同时进行，与专业表演者进行简短的平台讨论（“观众与”）。第二部分是全国哑剧普查。该项目将使用一些量化策略来记录当前哑剧活动的范围（专业和业余），生成新的数据，为哑剧的规模和经济影响的评估提供信息。信息将通过与专业管理机构（如大使剧院集团）、地方当局和艺术组织（如促进者艺术网络（农村促进者机构）、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）的合作伙伴关系提供。这些将存入AHDS的新数据集将成为本项目必不可少的重要新资源，但对流行文化、社会历史、社区艺术的研究人员以及工业人员和决策者具有更广泛的相关性。该项目的特点是致力于非传统和传统的产出，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/合著的书籍、学术会议、合编的散文集/项目成果的传播将通过以下举措利用哑剧的流行吸引力：与苏格兰剧院档案馆合作的巡回展览，伴随着档案电影的会谈和放映，在苏格兰各地的剧院和市政厅推广；一个与设施互动的网站，以获取口述历史节目的流媒体摘录，并供受试者自愿接受采访；与苏格兰银幕公司联合发行的档案电影DVD，其中包括1931年至1951年苏格兰哑剧的排练；一本通俗的历史书。

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.