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Subject: London's Theatre Museum
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:11:02 EST
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Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]>
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The Theatre Museum in London, a branch of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, is threatened with closure. The museum, which contains an
extensive collection of all sorts of materials on all types of theatre,
including important resources on early theatre. For more on the Theatre
Museum, go to their website: http://www.theatremuseum.org.uk/default.php.
The reasons behind the closure are supposedly financial, but it seems
like there is more to the story than just that. Now, a group called
"Guardians of the Theatre Museum" has been formed to help keep it
open. They are looking to get the names of at least 100,000 people who
object to its closing by the end of the month. Their goals are stated
below, and I would encourage all serious researchers of music and
theatre to participate in their attempt to keep the museum open.
Jeff Dailey
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The V & A will CLOSE the Theatre Museum on January 7th. A campaign has
now been launched to prevent this happening, to allow time for proper
consultation about its future and to ensure the continuation of this
vital resource.
Please add your name in support. We are not asking you to give money or
effort. People are signing up every minute. We want to get 100,000 names
by Christmas - with your help we may get many more.
Just follow these three simple steps:
1. Log on to our website
http://www.theatremuseumguardians.org.uk/ Which will also give you
more background
2. Fill in your name
3. Tick a couple of boxes
THAT’S ALL. Please do it NOW. Thanks
Apologies if you receive this from more than one source. We are block
e-mailing to as many people as possible and would be grateful if you
would pass the message on to your contacts. Tell your colleagues,
friends, students, lovers - even your enemies if you think they'd care!
--
Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask]
List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html>
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