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Tomorrow's Great Pageant (last edited: 2021)

Demitrios Kargotis
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Tomorrow’s Great Pageant is the result of a three-month project initiated by the Post Workers Theatre and supported by Bedford Creative Arts, The Place Theatre and Arts Council England. The researcher’s work re-scripted the suffrage play, A Pageant of Great Women, written by Ciceley Hamilton in 1909. This allegorical work of political agitation featured the embodiment of Justice, Woman and Prejudice, with a cast of forty-five historic great women to promote a feminist perspective on emancipation. The aim was to revisit the play’s original structure and intent, whilst updating its content and delivery. By working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ community to explore what a post-gender future could look like, the researcher accomplished an empowering co-authoring of the script. The research comprised a launch event, six workshops, rehearsal and final performance reading. It engaged a network of diverse voices—over 163 participants—in debating and co-writing the new play that commented on gender and freedom today. The launch event brought together seven guest speakers to revisit the structure and values of the historic suffrage play producing a new platform for collective understanding, awareness and celebration. The outcomes of this debate informed the workshops and the new script that followed. The workshops introduced experimental performance and co-production techniques to foster knowledge exchange. This was achieved by involving the participants in the analysis of social issues through the use of digital avatars as actors; forum theatre as a design tool; and debate structures as a means of co-authoring. Participants scripted their own concerns and hopes into a narrative that acts as both a significant social document for the time and highlights local issues surrounding the treatment and judgement of marginalised groups. The script was first shared on 6 April 2019 at The Place Theatre as a performance reading.
typeresearch exposition
date04/02/2021
last modified12/03/2021
statusin progress
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copyrightDemitrios Kargotis
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1148906/1148907


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