Reading the Forest reupload

Re-upload of Reading the Forest with Dr Jason Griffiths

Transcript

00:00Well it might have been six for all I don't know but I heard it was only five. It was great it was

00:05just absolutely perfect um just right we had just enough chairs it was a lovely audience they were

00:11really engaged really interesting yeah so um yeah really really pleased with it. Well um

00:18it just started with the idea that we were coming across all these amazing scripts by Forrest

00:22writers and we're not really toured up to do yet uh full productions of these um so we just wanted

00:31to tell people about them and it's part of our outreach program really to um not people don't

00:37have to always come into the museum we want to go out and explain what we're doing and and share some

00:42of the treasures we're discovering really and with drama what better way than get people to do at

00:47least do sort of stand-up readings performance you know no costumes or flats or props or anything

00:53but at least kind of bringing the script alive a bit and I think it's very easy if you're not involved

00:58in it to think there's nothing going on but there's a lot going on and there always has been such a rich

01:04history cultural history of the forest which is connected to some of those traditions like the

01:09mining you know the woods and everything else and working class life but there's also amazing writers

01:15poets and and dramatists and amateur actors you know it's all here really but it does take a little

01:22bit of winkling it out and reminding people of this heritage