The 1916 'Shakespeare Hut' for the troops - Dr. Ailsa Grant Ferguson
What ho! For Shakespeare when we get back to Blighty!
The outbreak of the Great War halted all progress toward the development of a National Theatre and in August 1914 the National Theatre Committee suspended operations. It was not until 1916 that they thought of the vacant site they owned and the possibility of turning it to patriotic account by lending it to the YMCA for the erection of a Shakespeare Hut for the entertainment and social service of the troops.
Dr. Grant Ferguson is the Research Associate for the King's College London project 'Monumental Shakespeare', undertaking comparative research into modes of Shakespearean memorialisation in London and in Sydney at the time of the Shakespeare Tercentenary in 1916
Speaker - Dr. Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Wednesday 25 May 2011, 7-8pm
Call 020 7452 3000 or book online to reserve you place for this free lecture. Limited availability.
Venue: John Lyon Education Studio, National Theatre Studio, 83-101, The Cut, SE1 8LL
The 1916 'Shakespeare Hut' for the troops - Dr. Ailsa Grant Ferguson finished on: 25 May 2011
