PART TWO

Report on Three Projects

Open Night; Sam Spade Meets Johann Kepler; Spies at Work

In 1975 a group of former members of the Bradford Art College Theatre Group worked with students from the Bradford College Community Arts course and several groups of 16-year-old school-leavers from a number of different schools in Bradford to make three videotapes aimed at using the language of popular entertainment for a conscious educational purpose.

For the seven previous years the Bradford Art College Theatre Group had been developing a method of learning through theatre, and had also been developing a form of theatre which tried to communicate information through entertainment. Sometimes the Group had helped to create events in which large numbers ...

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