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[[File:Full emblem, black on transparent.png|thumb]] | Welcome to the Amateur Theatre Wiki. This is a place for anyone passionate about amateur theatre. Here, you can find out more about amateur theatre in your home country, town or village. You can discover what amateur theatre was like a century ago and learn how it works elsewhere around the world. Most importantly of all, you can join our growing community of amateur theatre historians, who are busy adding their own amateur theatre histories to this site. History starts now - and the site includes details of productions and performances that happened this year, as well as those that took place in the distant past. | ||
Those histories could be from the distant past to the present day. | |||
For too long, amateur theatre has been undervalued in our society. This site celebrates the long history of amateur theatre and | |||
shows You can contribute to our understanding of amateur theatre society by adding to this site. | |||
to document amateur theatre[[File:Full emblem, black on transparent.png|thumb]] | |||
== About the Project == | == About the Project == | ||
Revision as of 12:19, 25 November 2022
Welcome to the Amateur Theatre Wiki. This is a place for anyone passionate about amateur theatre. Here, you can find out more about amateur theatre in your home country, town or village. You can discover what amateur theatre was like a century ago and learn how it works elsewhere around the world. Most importantly of all, you can join our growing community of amateur theatre historians, who are busy adding their own amateur theatre histories to this site. History starts now - and the site includes details of productions and performances that happened this year, as well as those that took place in the distant past.
Those histories could be from the distant past to the present day.
For too long, amateur theatre has been undervalued in our society. This site celebrates the long history of amateur theatre and
shows You can contribute to our understanding of amateur theatre society by adding to this site.
to document amateur theatre
About the Project
Performing Citizenship (PC) is a research project studying amateur theatre in Europe in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, and the role of non-professional theatre in the development of the modern concept of citizenship. Around 1800, in a time of significant political change and social shifts, the non-professional theatre offered educative possibilities for the acquisition of skills deemed essential to becoming a ‘good citizen’. PC has a particular focus on amateur theatricals in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland between 1780-1850.
The project is funded by the European research council and is based at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The project started in 2022 and will run for five years. The five project members are Dr. professor Meike Wagner (project leader), Dr. David Coates, Dr. Maria Gullstam, MA Julia Stina Skoglund and MA Katrin Frühinsfeld.
In order to gather information on historical non-professional theatre, involving citizen science/community scholarship, and to create an open access archive for amateur theatres still active today, PC started the present Amateur theatre Wiki in the autumn of 2022.