E/CU3/1/2

File of correspondence including:

1975 - 1987

From: 1975 To: 1987

Reports of visits to drama groups and productions; - programme of a play by Luton Youth Drama Workshop; - report - “Luton 2000, A Case For The Arts” by Forward Planning Committee of Luton Arts Council (including considerable mention of drama); - correspondence regarding drama in education; - invitations to Chief Education Officer to attend performances; - initiative to instigate an annual County Play, including press notice of first production (Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labours Lost”); - policy notes - “Towards a County Policy for Drama”; - correspondence regarding Toddington Poetry Society, National Writing Project and a Black Writer in Residence; - letter complaining that too much county cultural activity took place in Bedford as opposed to Luton; - note on Bedfordshire Youth Theatre; - councillor’s wish to see a book satirising Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War banned from middle school libraries; - theatre company wishing to tour the county.

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Chief Education Officer,
Luton Arts Council,
Bedfordshire Youth Theatre,
Thatcher, Margaret

EDUCATION, curriculum drama, general correspondence, theatre companies, drama productions, programmes, Luton Youth Drama Workshop, Luton Arts Council, invitations, Chief Education Officer, events, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, poetry, TODDINGTON, writers, arts, Bedfordshire Youth Theatre, Councillor, censorship, middle schools, libraries