Adolonia and Other Escape Routes: The Not-the-Reunion Reunion Community Arts Anthology (Playscripts)

Adolonia and Other Escape Routes celebrates the work of the Community Arts undergraduate degree programme at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts after its 'opening' in 1995.

This anthology is intended as a vehicle to collect some of the memories, writings and work of those early years at LIPA and provides snapshots of some of the work we taught, learned and performed together; postcards of the voices, ambitions and dreams that we had during those early formative years.

If you weren’t one of those who went through those years together with us, then I hope our anthology provides you with some interesting ideas on how you might develop your own interest and practice in that contested field which calls itself “Community Arts”…

Contents

• Not-the-30th-Reunion Reunion: Why Here, Why Now? by Nick Owen
• The Student Handbook 1995
• The Gangster Girls and The Pathways Out with Caroline Murphy
• Early Reunion Misgivings
• Our First Sacking – The Induction Weekend
• Is This the Way for the Actor’s Reunion?
• The Dog Ate My Homework: Rewriting Your Dissertation 30 Years On
• The Students and Staff Who Signed Up
• The Poignancy of the Old School Photo Album
• Level 1 Collaborative Performance Project: The Tin Drum
• A Week in the Life by Roger Hill
• Anyone up for a Harry Potter Community Drama workshop?
• Trawling the LIPA Metaverse: Community Music, My LIPA, and Questions of Research and Scholarship by Lee Higgins
• What is Art? Reflections by Anissa Ladjemi
• Improvisation and the Power for Social Change Reflections by Anissa Ladjemi
• Emigrant (Masters of Our Own Destiny?)
• Adolonia and Other Escape Routes
• And what ever happened to… Jake Ryan?
• Community Arts? What’s that going to be then?
• Exit Down South by Claire French
• Some Early… and Final Words from Julie Mayor