{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"One Hour Theatre Company","provider_url":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc","author_name":"Edge Hill University","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc\/author\/admin\/","title":"Home - One Hour Theatre Company","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Oxh3LCgyrC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc\/\">Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc\/embed\/#?secret=Oxh3LCgyrC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; One Hour Theatre Company\" data-secret=\"Oxh3LCgyrC\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script nonce=\"d20dffe84af4827947c120d41751b8c3\">\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"One Hour Theatre Company (OHTC; 2016-ongoing) is a project-based initiative of Professors Victor Merriman, David Peimer, and Tim Prentki (Emeritus, University of Winchester). The company's work has been written up in Merriman's monograph, Austerity and the Public Role of Drama: performing lives-in-common (Palgrave, 2019). OHTC presents plays in a form we call 'deliberative theatre': no play is longer than one hour in performance, and audiences are invited, after a break, to spend time responding to concerns and themes which seem important to them. We have four plays in repertory in our Encounters With Shakespeare series (2016-ongoing), a project which explores Kevin Curran's contention that Shakespeare\u2019s plays stage \u2018ethical encounters\u2019 essential to understanding human relations. Our plays make Shakespeare accessible to audiences by placing plotlines from his works alongside scenarios from our own world, thus enabling people to consider and deliberate on ethical questions from our own time. Encounters with Shakespeare includes three original playscripts by Prentki, as follows: Half Measures[1], Lear in Brexitland (Rehearsed reading, Communiversity, Croxteth and The Blackie Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2017; Shakespeare North Playhouse Studio, 2023),[2] and Empire\u2019s Edge, or, What You Will.[3] Lear in Brexitland was developed in dialogue with audiences in rehearsed readings in Croxteth, Liverpool, and Prescot. Empire\u2019s Edge, or, What You Will has had one rehearsed reading at the Bluecoat Arts Centre and is now in redevelopment as its theme, migration to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa, has become ever more pressing. Merriman has acted as dramaturg, and directed Prentki's scripts, in productions which have been funded by Edge Hill University's Institute for Creative Enterprise. Peimer wrote and directed A Pound of Flesh (Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, 2018). [1] Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, 2016; Shakespeare North Playhouse Studio, 2022 [2] Rehearsed reading, Communiversity, Croxteth and The Blackie Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2017; Shakespeare North Playhouse Studio, 2023[3] Reading, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2019; currently in redevelopment. Other productions include, Peimer's Joanna's Story, with Dame Janet Suzman (London Jewish Book Week, 2022), and Bartleby: A Tale of Wall Street, by Thomas Hall, directed by Merriman (Writing on the Wall Festival, 2021). https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/performingarts-edgehill\/albums\/72157675534937705","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ohtc\/files\/2024\/01\/Post-show-discussion-Lear-in-Brexitland-1024x768.jpg"}