| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Playing at Work/Working at Play -- Staging Bournville -- Playing at Work and Working at Play -- Bodies at Work: Theatre, Sport, and Recreation -- Uncovering the Stories of Theatre in the Chocolate Factory -- Part I Factory Theatre -- Chapter 1 Staging Bournville's Spirit: Cadbury's Industrial Performances -- Healthy Fun: New Lanark, Saltaire, and Bromborough Pool -- Port Sunlight -- The Manor Mummers |
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Rowntree's of New Earswick -- Drama at the Cocoa Works -- Bournville's Spirit: Industrial Community and Theatre at Cadbury -- Managing Recreation and Theatre at Bournville -- Chapter 2 Theatre in the Bournville Factory: Performance at Work -- Theatrical Performance Inside Cadbury's Chocolate Factory -- Visions -- The Cadbury Concert Hall -- Performing at the Pool: Entertaining at the Girls' Swimming Baths -- Modern Advertising: Chocolate, Theatre, and the Business of Promotion -- Part II Theatre in the Factory Garden |
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Chapter 3 Marketing Fresh Air: Outdoor Performance at Bournville's Factory in the Garden -- Investing in Fresh Air: Performance at Cadbury's Summer Works Parties, 1902-1914 -- Taking Part: Performance and Participation at the Summer Parties -- 1911: The British Empire Tableaux -- 1911: The Burlesque Cricket Match -- 1912: The Burlesque Man-Agerie -- Playing in the Fresh Air -- Chapter 4 Serious Play: John Drinkwater's Masques at Bournville -- The First Pastoral Plays at Bournville, 1908 and 1909 -- Space to Play Outside: Cadbury's Outdoor Amphitheatre, 1910 -- The John Drinkwater Masques |
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An English Medley, 1911 -- The Pied Piper: A Tale of Hamelin, 1912 -- The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot, 1913 -- Robin Hood and the Pedlar, 1914 -- Taking Outdoor Play(s) Very Seriously -- Part III Theatre, Education, and Worker Well-being -- Chapter 5 Keeping It on the Right Lines: Making Theatre in Bournville's Recreational Societies -- Making Theatre on the Right Lines -- Repertoire -- War Work -- Bournville and Birmingham's Repertory Theatre: Cadbury's Widening Cultural Connections -- What Is Wrong with the Theatre?: Bournville Dramatic Society Lectures |
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Chapter 6 Dramatic Methods of Teaching -- Cadbury's Girls' Day Continuation School: The Pageant of Plays and Playgoers, 1922 -- Bournville Children's Festivals -- Education and Outdoor Plays -- Children's Play: Education, Industrial Patronage, and Birmingham's Children's Theatre Company -- Educational Settlements: Woodbrooke and Fircroft Colleges -- Fircroft's Weekend Theatre Lecture School -- The Cadbury's Model: Learning through Play and Plays -- Conclusion -- A Welfare House of Dreams: Theatre at Cadbury's -- Playing at Work -- The Legacies of Bournville's Factory Play(s) -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
"A symbol of Britain's industrial heyday, Cadbury's offered recreational and educational schemes that included an astonishing amount of theatre. Focusing on the staff and performances central to the tale, Catherine Hindson situates theatre at the heart of understanding Cadbury's operation and the wider industrial histories it represents"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Cadbury (Firm) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Cadbury (Firm) fast |
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Theater -- England -- Bournville -- History -- 20th century
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Theater and society -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Chocolate industry -- England -- History
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Chocolate industry
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Theater
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Theater and society
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England
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England -- Birmingham -- Bournville
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022059695 |
| ISBN |
9781009271837 |
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1009271830 |
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