Live recording of The Reanimating Project, a devised show by the University of Manchester’s Women’s Theatre Society in collaboration with the Reanimating Data Project. Edited version.

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways.
This item is the edited recording of a live performance of Reanimating Project by the Women's Theatre Society at the University of Manchester. The performance was devised by the group of young women, who were students at the University of Manchester, using three interviews from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (MIS09, MAG50, MAN99). The WRAP interviews were conducted thirty years ago with young women who were drama students at the University of Manchester in 1989. In the play the actors revoice some of the original interviews as well as exploring their own experiences of love, sex, relationships, hope, loss and desire. The play was performed at the University of Manchester's student union, directed by Elena Brearly and Danielle Carbon-Wilson and professionally recorded by Sue Reddish and James Dalziel.

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Ester McGeeney, Rosie Gahnstrom

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