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The Magdalena Project@25

This specific research imperatives and processes of this project are the recording and analysing of 25 years of continuous global activity of The Magdalena Project: The International Network of Women in Contemporary Theatre, founded and artistically directed by Jill Greenhalgh. The contextual questions posed by the researcher were:

•How do we represent, articulate and respect, in structures appropriate to a global network with diverse and distinct experiences and ambitions, the multi-national diversity of experience, achievement and legacy that the Magdalena Project has engendered and established in its 25 years of continuous activity?

•How do we identify key witnesses to the history and growth of the Project?

•Can we identify future challenges and articulate strategies to ensure the sustainability of the Project?

The research and analysis is represented by a portfolio comprising four inter-related items:

1.Book: Legacy and Challenge: The Magdalena@25. This edited collection contains chapters from practitioners significantly involved in the development of the project since its inception in 1986. Greenhalgh initiated this book, was contributing editor and author of one major chapter.

2. Dialogic article: ‘Magdalena@25: Articulating the Magdalena Project – Past, Present and Future’: Gale, M.B. and Greenhalgh, J, Contemporary Theatre Review.

3. A website launched 2011 www.themagdalenaproject.org<http://www.themagdalenaproject.org> containing archive material, networking and communication tools, news of events worldwide and a multi-lingual member’s forum. Greenhalgh was involved at every stage of production, design and content development.

4. 30 minute DVD co-produced by Greenhalgh and Sara Penrhyn Jones, contextualising Legacy and Challenge: international festival produced and artistically directed by Greenhalgh in August 2011 [Enabled by grant aid totalling approximately £50,000]. Publicly available on Vimeo and on the Magdalena Project Website. This was screened at 'Crossing Events', Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark (30-09-2013).

The above items together constitute, record and disseminate the research project’s identifications and articulations of legacy and discourse.