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22:5022:50, 8 September 2025 Dwaipayan Chowdhury (hist | edit) [71 bytes] Dwaipayan Chowdhury (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Dwaipayan Chowdhury is a researcher in theater and performance studies.") Tag: Visual edit
19:5819:58, 8 September 2025 King's Theatre Gloucester (hist | edit) [6,203 bytes] Lucy Henderson (talk | contribs) (Created new page) Tag: Visual edit
19:2319:23, 8 September 2025 Brandenburg House (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Judith Hawley (talk | contribs) (holding page) Tag: Visual edit
19:0919:09, 8 September 2025 Hatfield House Waverely Novels Tableaux Vivants (hist | edit) [1,735 bytes] Sarah Burdett (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In January 1833 Hatfield House hosted a lauded theatrical entertainment inspired by the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott. Scott pageants had been popularised on the London stage following the author's death in September 1832. The main inspiration for the Waverley Novels Tableaux Vivants at Hatfield House, however, was a pageant staged in Vienna in 1826, when Sir Henry Wellesley (later Lord Cowley) was resident as British Ambassador. The spectacle that night consisted...") Tag: Visual edit
19:0019:00, 8 September 2025 Race (hist | edit) [2,043 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Evidence of the involvement of people of colour within private and amateur theatricals is poorly evidenced in the historical record. This page aims to gather together evidence to better support our historical understanding and research of the historical contribution of people of colour to private and amateur theatricals. At Hinchingbrook, in November 1787 Lord Sandwich reportedly had taken over managing the thunder and the lightning. It was noted that 'formerly a ''Bla...") Tag: Visual edit
18:5818:58, 8 September 2025 As Sete Vidas da Argila (hist | edit) [4,220 bytes] Jorge Louraço Figueira (talk | contribs) (Created page with "O projeto As Sete Vidas da Argila foi um projeto de intervenção artística em Aveiro, constituído por um espetáculo de teatro (estreado a 23 de Setembro de 2021) e um documentário (estreado a 25 de Setembro de 2022). O projeto teve direção artística de Jorge Louraço Figueira e foi realizado por artistas profissionais e amadores. A produção foi do Teatro Aveirense, sob a direção de José Pina, e a criação contou ainda com a colaboração da Red Cloud, grup...") Tag: Visual edit
18:4218:42, 8 September 2025 The Macedonian Scourge (hist | edit) [477 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (created article, citing source.) Tag: Visual edit
18:4218:42, 8 September 2025 Gordon Castle (hist | edit) [350 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''The Times'', on 28 September 1792 reported that 'the Theatrical mania has reached Scotland, where the bonny Duchess is enlivening the Society of her Friends'. On 2 October 1792, the ''Courier'' reported that a 'pretty little theatre' had been built at Gordon Castle and that the nobility and gentry were amusing themselves with private theatricals.") Tag: Visual edit
18:4018:40, 8 September 2025 Eaton Hall Theatre (hist | edit) [493 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There was an evening's entertainment entitled Lord Grosvenor's Gala at the Eaton Hall Theatre on 6 September 1788. A prologue critical of the Restoration and Charles II was spoken. On 20 September 1788 ''Hamlet'' and ''High Life Below Stairs'' were staged at the theatre. In 1789, on 19 September the ''World'' reported that ''Othello'' and ''Much Ado About Nothing'' had been performed. The celebrated comic actress, Dorothy Jordan, was reported as being present at some of...") Tag: Visual edit
18:3918:39, 8 September 2025 Amateur theatre during war (Donbas, Ukraine) (hist | edit) [1,553 bytes] Olga Danylyuk (talk | contribs) (Created page with "House of Culture (Novhorodske / New York) The House of Culture in Novhorodske (known until 2021 as Novhorodske, and historically as New York) is a cultural institution located in the urban-type settlement of New York, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Like many such venues built during the Soviet era, the House of Culture served as a central hub for community life, combining functions of a theatre, cinema, concert hall, and club for amateur artistic collectives. Houses of Cul...") Tag: Visual edit
18:3818:38, 8 September 2025 Actresses' Franchise League (hist | edit) [1,883 bytes] Viv Gardner (talk | contribs) (Created page with " = Actresses' Franchise League = The '''Actresses' Franchise League''' was a women's suffrage organisation, mainly active in England. Though an organisation whose members were stage professionals, the performances were free and in a range of private and public venues. == Founding == In 1908 the Actresses' Franchise League was founded by Gertrude Elliott, Adeline Bourne, Winifred Mayo and Sime Seruya at a meeting in the Criterion Restaurant in London. While "actresses"...") Tag: Visual edit
18:3018:30, 8 September 2025 Maltese amateur theatre (hist | edit) [3,872 bytes] Vicki Ann Cremona (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Amateur companies are an essential part of the theatrical scene in Malta, and up to very recent time, professional theatre makers, actors and singers were brought over from abroad. Historical documentation shows that amateur performances were given both during the rule of the Knights of St John (1530-1798) in the Knights' auberges and at the theatre. Maltese playwrights wrote plays for amateur actors in Italian, but in the second half of the nineteenth century, plays in...") Tag: Visual edit
18:2118:21, 8 September 2025 Nautch (hist | edit) [2,473 bytes] Priya Venkat Raman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Amateur Theatre? A Decolonial Counterpart == The ''nautch'' (/ˈnɔːtʃ/, from the Hindustani ''naach'', meaning "dance") was a form of popular court and royal entertainment in colonial India, performed by women known as ''nautch girls''. The term "nautch" is an anglicized version of the Hindustani word ''nach'' (dance), introduced through British colonial contact with Indian elites, during the early 19th century.[https://archive.org/details/donors-devotees-and-dau...") Tag: Visual edit
18:1418:14, 8 September 2025 The Arts League (hist | edit) [652 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Arts League refers to the Arts League of Service was one of the many associations, societies, leagues and institutions devoted to the arts, which emerged after the First World War. They were conceived of as part of a larger project of reconstruction and motivated by post-war desire to make art accessible. They had a conference in Nottingham in March 1921 where they invited many of these groups and trade unions representations and pledged to exert efforts to bring th...") Tag: Visual edit
18:1318:13, 8 September 2025 Sweet Legacies (York Theatre Royal) (hist | edit) [1,823 bytes] Esther Wilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/be-part-of-it/adults/sweet-legacies/ Sweet Legacies] was a community engagement programme led by York Theatre Royal (YTR) in 2025. With financial support from the National Heritage Lottery Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Sweet Legacies p...") Tag: Visual edit
18:1218:12, 8 September 2025 The Thespian Critic and Theatrical Review (hist | edit) [518 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (created article, citing source.) Tag: Visual edit
18:0618:06, 8 September 2025 Beaumarchais (hist | edit) [754 bytes] Jennifer Ruimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A recognized playwright, author of the ''Figaro trilogy'' (''The Barber of Seville'', ''The Marriage of Figaro'', ''The Guilty Mother''), as well as a watchmaker and businessman, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a multifaceted figure. He began his career by writing ''parades de société'' (short amateur comedies) for the fermier général [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Guillaume_Le_Normant_d%27%C3%89tioles Lenormant d’Étiolles], the first...") Tag: Visual edit
18:0518:05, 8 September 2025 The Amateurs of Her Majesty's Ship Chesapeake (hist | edit) [511 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An amateur theatrical troupe made up of sailors and petty officers that performed from 1857-1860 aboard HMS Chesapeake and in ports like Aden, Jeddah, and Calcutta.<ref>Isbell, Mary. “When Ditchers and Jack Tars Collide: Benefit Theatricals at the Calcutta Lyric Theatre in the Wake of the Indian Mutiny.” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'', vol. 42, no. 3, Sept. 2014, pp. 407–23. ''Cambridge Core'', <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.10...") Tag: Visual edit
17:5717:57, 8 September 2025 Thomas-Simon Gueullette (hist | edit) [1,794 bytes] Jennifer Ruimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Thomas-Simon Gueullette''' (June 2, 1683, Paris – December 23, 1766, Paris) was a French '''playwright, storyteller, jurist, bibliophile, and man of letters'''. == Biography == A lawyer at the Châtelet and later deputy prosecutor, Gueullette witnessed key judicial events of mid-18th-century Paris, including the exile of parliamentarians (1753–54), the execution of Damiens (1757), and the trials of Calas, Sirven, and La Barre. Fascinated by criminal cases, he col...") Tag: Visual edit
17:5317:53, 8 September 2025 Amateur theatre in the Netherlands (hist | edit) [275 bytes] Antine Zijlstra (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Information about Dutch amateur theatre can be found at the website of LKCA, the national expertise centre on cultural education and amateur arts. Their website can be found: [https://www.lkca.nl/?s=amateurtheater]") Tag: Visual edit
17:5317:53, 8 September 2025 The Jutland Boys (hist | edit) [895 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Jutland Boys were a troupe of ten non-professional performers during the Great War. Their first performance was at the Euston Palace on 20 November 1916. Their act was called 'Jack Ashore' and the Examiner of Plays, Ernest Bendall described the act as: <blockquote>a little sketch introducing popular songs with connecting dialogue, for rendering by discharged naval men who took part in the battle of Jutland. It pretends, of course, to nothing in the way of dramatic in...") Tag: Visual edit
17:5217:52, 8 September 2025 York Theatre Royal Community Productions (hist | edit) [1,875 bytes] Esther Wilson (talk | contribs) (Created page with "York Theatre Royal (YTR) is a theatre in St Leonard's Place, in York, England, which dates back to 1744. YTR has a long-held association with local amateur groups and, since 2011, has developed a national reputation within the UK for it's large-scale community theatre productions. Led by the theatre's creative team and often co-produced...") Tag: Visual edit
17:4617:46, 8 September 2025 Bombastes Furioso (hist | edit) [2,090 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (created article (copying article from Wikipedia)) Tag: Visual edit
17:4417:44, 8 September 2025 The Ten Tommies (hist | edit) [458 bytes] Helen Brooks (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Ten Tommies were a troupe of ten performers during the Great War. They advertised themselves as being music hall artists and actors who 'were to the front in the first great rush of volunteers' and who after having 'been through the "great adventure" were now 'able once more to entertain the public'. Their first performance was the 11 September 1916 at the Bath Palace. Their final performance was 19 July 1919 at the Runnacleave Theatre, Ilfracombe.") Tag: Visual edit
17:4317:43, 8 September 2025 Parade (hist | edit) [1,190 bytes] Jennifer Ruimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''parade''' was, in the 17th century, a short comic piece performed outside fairground theatres to attract passersby before announcing the show inside. By the 18th century, the parade, firstly played on Fair theatres' balconies, then evolved, and was adopted by high society mocking popular speech and manners. Writers such as [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas-Simon_Gueullette Thomas-Simon Gueullette] and Charles Collé were prominent in this genre. Collectio...") Tag: Visual edit
17:4217:42, 8 September 2025 Künstlerhaus Götz (Artist's house Götz) (hist | edit) [1,611 bytes] Dwaipayan Chowdhury (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The house''' Founded in 2019, the Künstlerhaus focuses on creative activities related to nature, technology and intercultural exchange. The Artist House strives to be a collaborative space where artists can thrive creatively while participating in sustainable living practices. Art and innovation serve to achieve measurable goals, both intellectually for each individual and interpersonally and externally, through collaboration with other locations. A diverse integra...") Tag: Visual edit
17:4217:42, 8 September 2025 Centro teatrale Universitario di Genova (CUT Genova) (hist | edit) [2,417 bytes] Livia Cavaglieri (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Different theater have been active at the University of Genoa. == History ==") Tag: Visual edit
17:4217:42, 8 September 2025 Amateur Theatre in Australia (hist | edit) [1,685 bytes] Kate Newey (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Amateur theatre in Australia began almost at the same time as European invaders settled in Australia. The First Fleet, carrying British military and convicts sentenced to transpoportation arrived in January 1788 at Port Jackson (now Sydney) on the east coast of Australia. Within eighteenth months, the convicts had put on a play, George Farquhar’s ''The Recruiting Officer'' for the King’s birthday on the 4th June 1789. Convicts and soldiers, sailors, officers and the...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
17:4017:40, 8 September 2025 Damon and Pythias (1821 Play) (hist | edit) [1,065 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (created article (copying article from Wikipedia)) Tag: Visual edit
17:3917:39, 8 September 2025 Scene Theatre, Budapest (hist | edit) [1,841 bytes] Zoltán Imre (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Szkéné Theatre officially opened in the spring of 1970, with the premiere of Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres’ play ''Theomachia''. Although since then the theatre has played a highly important role as a production house of independent theatre and dance collectives as well as for international festivals of dance and physical theatre, the initial period was merely characterized by the works of its permanent ensemble, the Szkéné Collective. The history of the Szké...") Tag: Visual edit
17:3617:36, 8 September 2025 The Chagford Mummers (hist | edit) [1,695 bytes] Howard Gayton (talk | contribs) (First edits) Tag: Visual edit
17:3317:33, 8 September 2025 Strawberry Hill Theatre (hist | edit) [9,540 bytes] Judith Hawley (talk | contribs) (added content on ASD from wikipedia) Tag: Visual edit
17:3217:32, 8 September 2025 Hasty Pudding Theatricals (hist | edit) [9,529 bytes] Mary Isbell (talk | contribs) (created article (copying article from Wikipedia)) Tag: Visual edit
17:3117:31, 8 September 2025 Det forenede dramatiske Selskab (hist | edit) [3,043 bytes] Annabella Skagen (talk | contribs) (First few paragraphs have been entered) Tag: Visual edit
17:2617:26, 8 September 2025 Centro Universitario Teatrale di Parma (CUT) (hist | edit) [4,951 bytes] Roberta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Il Centro Universitario Teatrale di Parma (CUT-Parma) was a student theatre group active between 1954 and 1971 in Parma, a middle-sized town in northern Italy. Since 2016 is alive again in a completely renewed contest. == '''HISTORY''' == The University Theatre Centre of Parma (CUT-Parma) was founded, like many other University Theatres in republican Italy, in the wake of the moral, cultural and artistic reconstruction that followed the Second World War, after the fas...") Tag: Visual edit
17:2417:24, 8 September 2025 Charles Collé (hist | edit) [1,012 bytes] Jennifer Ruimi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Charles Collé''' (1709–1783) was a French songwriter, playwright, and member of the convivial ''Société du Caveau''. Originally trained in law, he built a career in business while gaining fame for witty, often risqué songs and light comedies. His patriotic song ''La Prise de Port-Mahon'' (1756) earned him a royal pension, and his theatrical works for the Duke of Orléans earned him the nickname ''“the Corneille of the parade.”'' His most celebrated play, ''...") Tag: Visual edit
17:2017:20, 8 September 2025 Deutscher Dramatischer Verein in New York (hist | edit) [1,755 bytes] Berenika Szymanski-Düll (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Deutscher Dramatischer Verein was a 19th-century German amateur theatre association in New York City. It initially performed in a hall at 83 Anthony Street in Lower Manhattan and later moved to the Franklin Theatre at 175 Chatham Street. The Deutscher Dramatischer Verein was part of a broader German-language cultural life that flourished in New York City during the mid-19th century. Large numbers of German immigrants had settled in the city, particularly in Kleindeut...") Tag: Visual edit
17:1917:19, 8 September 2025 Universitas Ensemble, Budapest (hist | edit) [1,603 bytes] Zoltán Imre (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Universitas Ensemble was founded in 1962 at Eötvös University, Budapest (one of Hungary’s most prestigious universities). This time in Hungary amateur theatres were less controlled by the state as the professional ones, they could perform plays that were otherwise prohibited and experiment with acting styles. Universitas had a special situation even among amateur groups, it enjoyed more freedom. During the first period there were three directors working with the grou...") Tag: Visual edit
17:1717:17, 8 September 2025 University Stage Szeged (hist | edit) [1,972 bytes] Zoltán Imre (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The University Theatre Szeged was founded at the Faculty of Humanities of Attila József University in the late 1950s. It was formed by occasional groupings of university students, with the help of a teacher who could be called a mentor (Károly István Horváth, Pál Bárdosi and others). Until 1970 the University Theatre Szeged was a heterogeneous ensemble, comprising several small groups. The groups staged one or two performances a year, which were presented only a fe...") Tag: Visual edit
17:1617:16, 8 September 2025 Amateur theatre in Fryslân (Frisia, The Netherlands) (hist | edit) [2,293 bytes] Antine Zijlstra (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== Amateur Theatre in Fryslân === Amateur theatre plays an important role in Frisian culture and community life and is mostly performed in Frisian. According to a 2015 sector analysis commissioned by '''Keunstwurk''', there are around '''200 amateur theatre associations''' active in Fryslân, involving approximately '''2,000 performers and volunteers''', attracting about '''80,000 visitors annually'''. In addition, the well-known '''iepenloftspullen''' (open-air theatr...") Tag: Visual edit
17:1217:12, 8 September 2025 PólíS (hist | edit) [1,699 bytes] Daria Skjoldager-Nielsen (talk | contribs) (Page added) Tag: Visual edit
17:0917:09, 8 September 2025 Vidooshak Natyamandali (hist | edit) [247 bytes] Dwaipayan Chowdhury (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Vidooshak Natyamandali is a theater group based in the city of Kolkata. The full name of the group is Purbo Kolkata Vidooshak Natyamandali, because it is based on the eastern parts of the city (Purbo Kolkata translates in Bengali to East Kolkata") Tag: Visual edit
17:0917:09, 8 September 2025 Missing (Theatre) Histories (hist | edit) [6,253 bytes] Zoltán Imre (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Missing (Theater) Stories is a comprehensive theater and cultural research project that primarily examines the histories of theaters, companies, institutions, and creators considered "amateur," "alternative," "experimental," "independent" from the 1960s to the present day. Systematic research into theatrical experiments during this period has become one of the most topical areas of European theater studies in recent decades, precisely because we are currently at the...") Tag: Visual edit
17:0817:08, 8 September 2025 Estonian amateur theatre (hist | edit) [2,068 bytes] Anneli Saro (talk | contribs) (Created page with "According to Statistics Estonia (Statistikaamet), there were 431 amateur theatres in Estonia in 2018, approximately 200 of them are adult groups, and the rest are school theatres. The 150-year-long tradition of amateur theatres, mostly in rural areas, has always existed as if in a parallel universe to the mostly urban located professional theatres. The Estonian amateur theatres are generally steady organisations – 80% of them are regularly operating. The highest numb...") Tag: Visual edit
17:0617:06, 8 September 2025 Munich Feminist Project (hist | edit) [1,232 bytes] Omid Mashhadi (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Munich Feminist Project (MFP)''' is a feminist theatre collective based in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 2017 by Emma Filer and Sophia Gonzalez, following the 2016 United States presidential election. The group first performed ''Rise Up: Feminist Voices Trump Hate'' at EineWeltHaus in Munich, where participants presented autobiographical monologues on experiences such as abortion, sexual assault, and everyday sexism. The event, initially intended as a one-of...") Tag: Visual edit
17:0317:03, 8 September 2025 Theatertage am See (hist | edit) [2,468 bytes] Stephan Schnell (talk | contribs) (Theatertage am See, annnual international Festival in Friedrichshafen) Tag: Visual edit
17:0117:01, 8 September 2025 Stockholms Jiddische Teateramatorn (hist | edit) [10,740 bytes] Willmar Sauter (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Stockholms Jiddische Teateramator'n was foundet in 2008 by Sylvia Sauter and Barbara Zylberzweig. Since the first premiere of ''Sayd azoj git'' in 2009, sever more productions have been presented.") Tag: Visual edit
17:0017:00, 8 September 2025 Studentersamfundets Interne Teater (hist | edit) [1,157 bytes] Ellen Karoline Gjervan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Studentersamfundets Interne Teater (The Studentersamfundet's Internal Theatre) is a student theatre located in Trondheim, Norway.") Tag: Visual edit
16:5916:59, 8 September 2025 Student Amateur Theatre during the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (hist | edit) [2,526 bytes] Isabella Draghici (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The Academy of Economic Studies' Brigade ==") Tag: Visual edit
16:5816:58, 8 September 2025 AITA IATA (hist | edit) [712 bytes] Stephan Schnell (talk | contribs) (It´s the first edition of AITA / IATA) Tag: Visual edit

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