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In Memory: Jim Haynes, 1933-2021

Jim Haynes — Edinburgh legend, Traverse Theatre co-founder, 1962 Writers Conference producer, champion of the counter-culture and avant-garde dies in Paris aged 87 -Martin Belk James Almand Haynes, known affectionately around the globe as “Jim”, died peacefully in Paris, 6 January 2021. Born in 1933 in Haynesville, Louisiana, Haynes was destined for an artistically-driven, international …

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article: Could a 1960s counterculture hotbed be a blueprint for post-lockdown theatre? by Martin Belk • The Stage

by Martin Belk The Stage, 15 June 2020 text: As British theatre looks for a blueprint to emerge from the pandemic, it could do worse than take notes from a notorious experimental theatre on Londons’ Drury Lane, which burned brightly – and briefly – in the late 1960s. In 1966, minister of the arts Jennie …

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