Ward 9: Coronavirus
Two of the patients in my room were put onto trolleys and taken out, and then two more women wheeled in. “This is now a Coronavirus ward,” said Susan. Alys Morgan was admitted to hospital on the 19th of April,…
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Booker Prize
Booker Prize Breaking News! The Writers’ Reading Group has been selected to shadow the Booker Prize again for the third time!! We shadowed the International Booker and the Booker in 2018- and absolutely loved reading Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes…
Tales of Lockdown news
Tales of Lockdown news: Congratulations to everyone whose work has been posted on the Tales of Lockdown blog so far. Please check the three sections of Living in Times of National Emergency – Lockdown, Epidemics and War to see if we…
Cancelled Tour of Friends of Enemies
We’re sad that many of our theatrical projects have been cancelled, including our semi booked 2020 autumn tour of Friends of Enemies (click here to see the trailer and read more). However, we are fully intending to take it out…
Tales of Lockdown
The Hearth Centre is very pleased to announce that we have received emergency funds for a 6 month project called Tales of Lockdown. The phrase “unprecedented” has been used for the Coronavirus epidemic we are currently living through- but for many people,…
Hearth Centre Publications 2020
Have a look at some of Polly Wright, Artistic Director of the Hearth Centre 2020 publications on our publications page: These include The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on the Stage (Polly wrote a chapter on the early years…
Sue Beavan. Nurse, Partner, Dog lover. A monologue about the NHS
Sue Beavan. Nurse, Partner, Dog lover. A monologue about the NHS Polly’s monologue was originally written for Women and Theatre’s 2014 piece – For the Past 30 years, which was a play written on the theme of women and work…
Writers’ Reading group lives….Virtually!
We are glad to announce that our writers’ reading group is going on in a virtual form! We continue to share literary role models in order to learn and improve our craft of writing, but now we’re meeting through Zoom…
Hearth receives Arts Council England emergency funds for Coronavirus project
The Arts Council England has awarded the Hearth Centre an award of Emergency funds to support the continuation of the organisation and to develop a six month project called Hidden Histories: Living in Times of National Emergency. For this Creative…
Podcast And Publication Launch – 7th March 2020
