Professor Katharine Cockin: Edward Gordon Craig and his sister, Edith Craig
Channel: Who is Gordon Craig?
Date: 2017-12-13

Prof Katharine Cockin FEA, PFHEA, FRSA
Edward Gordon Craig and his sister, Edith Craig

50 years after his death on July 29th 1966, Stevenage Arts Guild, in partnership with Stevenage Museum, supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund, celebrate the life and work of the town’s ‘forgotten son’ who became a radical and visionary theatrical pioneer.

A presentation recorded on July 31st 2016 at The Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage.

For more information, images, videos and educational resources visit http://www.edwardgordoncraig.co.uk/

Katharine Cockin is Professor of English at the University of Hull. She has written two books on Edith Craig, the biography (1998) and Women and Suffrage in the Age of Theatre (2001) about Edith Craig's Pioneer Players theatre society. She is editor of The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (8 vols; 6 in print so far, 2010-) and Ellen Terry: Lives of the Shakespearean Actors (series edited by Gail Marshall). In 2008 she launched the AHRC Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database online guide to the National Trust’s archive of over 20,000 documents. This year she is leading a project to enhance that online resource as AHRC Searching for Theatrical Ancestors, demonstrated at the project conference at the British Library on Friday 29 July. Her new book, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art is available now with Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.