Location : WCML
Start date : 14th December 2011
End date : 14th December 2011
" Living Newspapers" were one of the most successful of the theatre forms pioneered by Agitprop groups of the pre-Second World War years - groups like the Salford "Red Megaphones", in which Ewan McColl (aka Jimmy Miller) played an instrumental role. But what was a Living Newspaper? Where did the idea come from? How was it used to get an alternative message across to working people from the established "Newspapers"?
Find out by attending an illustrated talk here on Wed 14 December at 2pm. During the talk, items of interest from the Library will be available to view.
The WEA Socialist Theatre Course, which has been running successfully for the last ten weeks at the Library, will also present excerpts from their own Living Newspaper: "2011 - the year of the hog"
Admission free, light refershments available