Unfinished Histories

Unfinished Histories can offer a range of tailor-made workshops, talks and presentations to organisations, venues, universities, colleges and schools, on themes relating to the work and practices of 
alternative theatre. Please contact us if you would like further details on any of the following options:

Theatre Workshops

Unfinished Histories theatre workshops give participants the chance to investigate different creative practices employed by the alternative theatre movement and look at how these ideas can be used to develop performance pieces of their own.

Talks and Presentations

We are able to offer talks and presentations on a variety of alternative theatre topics including:

>The history and practices of alternative theatre

>Women’s theatre companies

>Black and Asian theatre companies

>The work of Unfinished Histories

>Documenting and archiving

Talks and presentations draw on material taken from our oral history interviews and the archive material we have located and documented.

Oral History Workshops

Training and advice on how to set up and run oral history projects including technical expertise.

Workshop and presentations archive 

Alternative theatre workshop and showing with members of Clean Break’s summer training course for adults, led by Jude Alderson of Sadista Sisters, 2008  
Oral History training with members of Oval House Theatre’s youth theatre, including running live interviews at the Celebrating Oval House evening, 2008  
‘Histories, Lost, Recent and Future: Archiving and Documenting Black Performance’ at On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2008 
‘Unfinished Histories: Findings, Questions, New Directions’ at The Golden Generation: New Light on Post-war British Theatre, British Library in association with Sheffield University, 2008
‘Recording personal testimony’ at Archiving and Recording Contemporary Performance, London Metropolitan University, 2007