Book contents
- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Factory Theatre
- Part II Theatre in the Factory Garden
- Chapter 3 Marketing Fresh Air
- Chapter 4 Serious Play
- Part III Theatre, Education, and Worker Wellbeing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Marketing Fresh Air
Outdoor Performance at Bournville’s Factory in the Garden
from Part II - Theatre in the Factory Garden
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2023
- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Factory Theatre
- Part II Theatre in the Factory Garden
- Chapter 3 Marketing Fresh Air
- Chapter 4 Serious Play
- Part III Theatre, Education, and Worker Wellbeing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Fresh air and green spaces were key to the development of Cadbury’s company image, and to the marketing of their cocoa and chocolate products. The creation of Bournville’s industrial pastoral landscape – widely marketed as the Factory in the Garden – was grounded in the firm’s recreational activities and theatrical performances. Outdoor performance was a key ingredient in this imagery, and a significant amount of theatrical activity was staged on the factory’s recreation grounds, including masques, Shakespeare and Robin Hood plays and Ancient Greek tragedies. Focusing on Cadbury’s summer works party performances, Chapter 3 considers performances that attracted audiences of between 5000 and 6000, who were offered rich, lengthy entertainment programmes that lasted up to eight hours, and brought together fairground side-shows, burlesques, sports, tableaux vivants, dances, song, brass bands, appearances from well-known professional performers, plays, maypole dancing, and aquatic spectacles.
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- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory<i>Performance at Cadbury's Bournville, 1900–1935</i>, pp. 95 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023