{"id":590,"date":"2023-01-23T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:22:23","slug":"pantomime-beyond-the-binary-exhibition-accompanies-ian-mckellens-mother-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/01\/23\/pantomime-beyond-the-binary-exhibition-accompanies-ian-mckellens-mother-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pantomime: Beyond the Binary\u2019 Exhibition Accompanies Ian McKellen\u2019s Mother Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/530\/brooks-helen\">Professor Helen Brooks<\/a> (School of Arts) has recently designed a new pop-up exhibition, which is accompanying the touring pantomime production of Mother Goose, starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition opened at the Ledwood Centre, Brighton\u2019s LGBT+ community and cultural centre in December, coinciding with the pantomime\u2019s run at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, and will accompany Mother Goose as it continues its tour in theatres across the country until April 2023. Helen Brooks was interviewed by Joe Talbot and Jeff Thomson on BBC Radio Sussex\/Surrey in December to mark the exhibition launch. The exhibition forms part of the AHRC-funded \u2018Beyond the Binary\u2019 project, led by Helen Brooks (Arts), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Olly Double<\/a> (Arts) and Karen Brayshaw (University of Kent Special Collections).<\/p>\n<p>The project brought together students, public researchers including people from all backgrounds and from across the gender spectrum, performance-makers, archivists and academics to undertake original research into historic music hall and pantomime archives. Through this research, an exhibition and a performance-lecture, the team are uncovering and sharing new perspectives on performance and gender, both in the past and today.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Helen on this achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Helen Brooks (School of Arts) has recently designed a new pop-up exhibition, which is accompanying the touring pantomime production of Mother Goose, starring Ian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/01\/23\/pantomime-beyond-the-binary-exhibition-accompanies-ian-mckellens-mother-goose\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256067,9112,282605],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}