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
- Chapter 1 Staging Bournville’s Spirit
- Chapter 2 Theatre in the Bournville Factory
- Part II Theatre in the Factory Garden
- Part III Theatre, Education, and Worker Wellbeing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Staging Bournville’s Spirit
Cadbury’s Industrial Performances
from Part I - Factory Theatre
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
- Chapter 1 Staging Bournville’s Spirit
- Chapter 2 Theatre in the Bournville Factory
- Part II Theatre in the Factory Garden
- Part III Theatre, Education, and Worker Wellbeing
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the first chapter, I open with an exploration of the Bournville Spirit, an energy created in house that manifested Cadbury’s core values and ambitions as both employer and manufacturer, and move on to trace synergies and differences between the firm’s factory site and other earlier and contemporaneous industrial communities, with a specific focus on the sites’ leisure provision and wider cultural offers. Brief considerations of earlier models – including New Lanark, Saltaire, and Bromborough Pool – are followed by more detailed explorations of Lever Brothers Wirral-based Port Sunlight factory, and Cadbury’s fellow cocoa and confectionery manufacturer and Quaker business operation, Rowntree’s, in York. Through these comparative industrial communities, the chapter acknowledges the wider contexts and industrial networks Bournville was located within and presents a case for the distinctiveness of Cadbury’s enterprise.
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- Theatre in the Chocolate Factory<i>Performance at Cadbury's Bournville, 1900–1935</i>, pp. 21 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023