The Old Price Riots Project
When:
—
Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Workshop performance exploring the question: does anyone still consider access to theatre to be a right worth fighting for?
It’s 1809, and the rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre – its predecessor destroyed by fire – re-opens with much higher ticket prices, and private boxes for the rich. Audiences protest, triggering the biggest riots in British theatre history.
It’s 2023, and resentment simmers about sky-high prices for West End – and subsidised – theatre.
But does anyone still consider access to theatre to be a right worth fighting for? With a government trying to criminalise legitimate protest, what *would* make us take to the barricades?
This workshop performance has been created by MA Text and Performance in the context of the module Collaborative Theatre Making.
Contact name:
Arts Week
- Arts Week
- School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
- School of Historical Studies
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Corporate website
- Public lecture or event
- ARTS: School
- ARTS: Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics
- ARTS: English, Theatre and Creative Writing
- ARTS: History of Art
- ARTS: Film, Media and Cultural Studies