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Chickenshed: An Awfully Big Adventure

Chickenshed: An Awfully Big Adventure

by ElizabethThomson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2013

    $3.25
Synopsis

In 1974, musician and composer Jo Collins met Mary Ward, a teacher and director. With a shared belief in harnessing the creativity in everyone and anyone, they started a theatre company. In a chicken shed. The rest, as they say, is history. Forty years on, Chickenshed is a unique theatre company that makes beautiful challenging, pioneering and inspirational theatre, and the concept of inclusion that seemed so obvious to Jo and Mary is now an international movement with a mission to change the world. Thousands of people have enjoyed Chickenshed shows, major figures such as Princess Diana and Judi Dench have supported their work, and many lives have been changed by the company's ability to bring together young people from all backgrounds, races and abilities. Chickenshed: An Awfully Big Adventure charts the story of this incredible theatre company, to commemorate its 40th anniversary.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Published: 17 Oct 2013
ISBN 10: 1909653136
ISBN 13: 9781909653139
Book Overview: * Beautiful and fully illustrated gift book to celebrate Chickenshed's 40th anniversary.; * A comprehensive history of the pioneering inclusive theatre company, which counts Judi Dench as patron.; * Chickenshed has a long track record of outreach and aims to create theatre that inspires and entertains.; * Major launch and publicity campaign planned.

Media Reviews
A heartwarming and informative celebration of the landmark 40th anniversary ... Thomson's storytelling as she recounts the history makes for an illuminating read --The Stage; With Christmas looming on the horizon, the pressure to buy the perfect gift grows by the day ... But with the launch of Chickenshed theatre's coffee table book, the answer of what to get the person who has everything might just have arrived. --The Enfield Advertiser; [Chickenshed's] story is told in this celebratory coffee-table book, with spotlights on individual company members and an affectionate foreword by Judi Dench. --New Statesman
Author Bio
Elizabeth Thomson has written for newspapers and magazines around the world and her portfolio of interviews includes Joan Baez, Alan Bennett, Jimmy Carter, Leonard Cohen and Vanessa Redgrave. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, she is the co-editor of critical anthologies on John Lennon, Bob Dylan and David Bowie and was responsible for 'the director's cut' of No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton. She has lectured at Liverpool University's Institute of Popular Music and been a Visiting Fellow of the Open University Sixties Research Group. A frequent broadcaster, Thomson is a founding editor of BookBrunch, the daily newsletter and website for the book trade.