Mubu's Players Past
MuBu’s Players Past at Brewhouse Yard Museum
This project is part of a two year programme to help make the John Player’s archive accessible to all. John Player is an important part of Nottingham’s history, and Brewhouse Yard Museum is using adverts from the John Player’s tobacco collection as inspiration for a short film. The project will examine adverts from the 1950s to the 1970s and explore how adverts changed over time and how they targeted certain groups of people.
Playwright Andy Barrett will work with a group of young people, facilitating workshops to help them respond imaginatively to the John Player’s Archive, and producing a script that will act as a narrative, as images from the collection appear on screen.
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Andy Barrett
Andy Barrett writes for stage and radio. He has a long running relationship with the Nottingham Playhouse, having had ‘The Day That Kevin Came’ and ‘Garage Band’ produced by the theatre, and next year will see his version of Ibsen’s ‘The League of Youth’, which will be the first ever professional production of the play in the U.K. He is also a regular collaborator with New Perspectives. ‘The Allotment’ was short listed for the Amnesty International award and ‘Dolly’, the ‘country and western meets cloning musical’ recently toured to rave reviews (‘It makes you proud to be British. A real original’ The Times; ‘Fresh, funny and intelligent … It’s quite an achievement’ The Stage). His new play ‘The Story Traders of Sichuan’ will be touring until December this year, and is a dual language script and the first ever Western Sichuan Opera (performed by a regional cast and members of the Sichuan Opera Troupe of Chengdu).
As co-artistic director of community theatre company Hanby and Barrett he has written and co-directed over twenty five shows that have been performed in a wide range of unusual locations across the region and which have involved hundreds and hundreds of local people in exploring the stories of the communities in which they live often in a truly spectacular fashion.
His work for Radio Four includes ‘The Perfect Wood’ with Stephanie Cole and Geoffrey Palmer, a Women’s Hour serial, and an adaptation of ‘The Adventures and Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe’ starring Tim McInnerney.
