Staging Difficult Pasts

AHRC-funded project investigating how theatres & museums are staging memory of difficult pasts. Bryce Lease, @mmdelgado1, Michal Kobialka & Cecilia Sosa

[Royal Holloway Drama @RHULDrama]

As part of our 'Staging Difficult Pasts' project, please watch British curator Jo Rosenthal's 10 curatorial strategies for staging loss and absence, premiering at 10pm 26 August & then available on our digital archive.
https://t.co/EYqYSJC4nP
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Join us this evening for a special online 5 o’clock visit at ESMA Memorial Museum - with a performance of El pan y la sal and a panel discussing the disappeared & testimony in Argentina and Spain.

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Hear more about our collaboration in Kraków with curators Erica Lehrer & Roma Sendyka tomorrow eve at Central School of Speech and Drama! https://t.co/CRdKNmwZO2

[UoM Drama & Film @UoMDrama]

We're looking forward to hosting @PastsStaging with @mmdelgado1 and Bryce Lease. Join us in SL01 of @MHCentre at 6.30pm tomorrow. All welcome! There will be wine ...

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Dynamic and thought-provoking works by Oscar Muñoz and Mapa Teatro at the Past Future Time exhibition at MAM. Run to see this! ‘El teatro es in recuerdo de una épica glacial olvidada’

[Maria M Delgado @mmdelgado1]

Staging Difficult Pasts: “My Girl, My Little Girl” at Madrid’s Español Theatre https://t.co/tSjUFmCfQM via @thetheatretimes

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Profound and sensitive production at Teatro Petra, digging up the past, hauntings, interspecies suffering. Labio de Liebre

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Fantastic new exhibition at the Jewish Museum London. A really nuanced approach to difficult subjects. Congratulations to the whole curatorial team! #jewsmoneymyth

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‘Akurat tędy szliśmy’ - sharing the burden of memory. Performance action by Wojtek Ziemilski.

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Workshops with Cricot 2 actor Ludka Ryba & Kolektyw Kuratorski at Cricoteka on objects in theatrical and museal spaces. Too bad we don’t have the word przedmiot in English....

[CoisCéim @CoisCeim]

“To ignore or to deny is not the opposite of remembering - memory is plural and multi directional - difficult pasts require different artworks” ... Bryce Lease at the #beyondtheserooms symposium @tateliverpool @1418NOW @anuproductions @culture_ireland

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Fabulous masterclass at RCSSD with Spanish theatremaker Xavi Bobés on objects revealing themselves through action. Hope you were able to catch his ‘Things Easily Forgotten’ in the London Mime Festival.

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Neil MacGregor in the FT Weekend on the aims of commemoration. Can Britain move from the Denkmal to Mahnmal? “We do not use our monuments to reflect on our share of responsibility for the First World War”

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Beautiful & nuanced objekttheater about life with & around the Berlin Wall by El Solar. Part of Theater der Dinge

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Excited to see the new issue of European Stages is now out! Check out our reviews from Spain and Serbia of difficult pasts & futures https://t.co/TlR6suYUjC