General publicity leaflets

With an introduction by John Murphy, Director, West Midlands Arts.

Explains the Pentabus Project and how to use Pentabus.

Refers to The Charlie Chaplin Show (Spring Tour 1975), The Terry Bull Circus (playcheme programme, Summer 1975), The Terry Bull Sideshow and Bloomers (with an image).

Section on 'How to use the Project in Your Community'.

/1 Illustrated folder 'Pentabus Theatre Project' containing three leaflets:

/2 What is Pentabus? What Does It Do? Who Can Use the Scheme?

/3 Pentabus: Full Length Shows (The Charlie Chaplin Show, 1975; Heads and Tales, 1976; A Cottage in the Country, 1976), Work with Children (Terry Bull’s Circus, 1975; The Story of Giant Kippernose, 1976) and Community Shows.

/4 Pentabus Summer Programme 1977 (Open-Air Show and Children's Participation Event)

With images.

Including an introduction to Pentabus and featuring Open-Air Show, Street Theatre Events, Playschemes, Pub Show, Christmas Show (Babes in the Wood), School's Out and Community Projects). With images.

Including an introduction to Pentabus and featuring Open-Air Show, Street Theatre Events, Children’s Playscheme Programe, Pub Show, Christmas Show ('Babes in the Wood' and 'The Knave of Hearts'), Autumn Theatre Tour and Projects. With images.

Including Pentabus Special Projects and examples of previous projects. With images.

With images.

Featuring One Over The Eight, The Last Straw Show, Street Theatre, Childrens Playscheme Programe, Autumn Theatre Tour, Christmas Show and Projects

Including introduction, Open-Air Shows, Street Theatre Events, Summer Playscheme Event, Pentabus Roadshow, Christmas Show, Touring Theatre (The Last Cottage) and Community Projects. With images.

Featuring The Last Cottage, Pentabus Roadshow, Summer Open-Air Show, Street Theatre, Playscheme Shows and Participation Events, Autumn Tour, Pentabus Christmas Show, Community Projects and Fees.

Including information on Barbara Allen, Punch and Judy and Mrs White And Her Seven Awfuls. With original image.

Including Advice and Information, Training Workshops, Special Needs Work, The Playscheme Show and Reflective Play Workshops. With images.

Including Production, Training, Access and Video Library / Screenings.

Including Pentabus Threatre Company introduction, Summer Programme, Christmas Pantomime, Autumn and Spring Theatre Tours and Pentabus Community Project. With images.

Spring and Summer: Open Air Show, Summer Cabaret and Mary Webb.

Autumn: Village Hall Tour, Harvest Supper Show, Pentabus Pantomime.

Illustrated with children's drawings.

Including The Black Quarter, The Shivered Glass, One Man Went to Mow. With images.

Featuring The Black Quarter, Open Air Show, One Man Went to Mow, Playscheme, Autumn & Winter.

Featuring Knock After Dark, Open Air-Show, Playscheme, Autumn & Winter.

Featuring the Christmas Show, Playscheme, Open-Air Show, Village Hall Cabarets, Plays and Community Project Work with images from Dick Turpin, Alice in Wonderland, The Magic Carpet, Vegetable Show, Sell Out, Harlequinade, Late of this Parish, Concert Party, The Black Quarter, Video Project.

With information about Pentabus, technical requirements etc.

Logo featuring silhouette of Pentabus van.

Featuring The Complete Works, Open Air Show, Summer Cabaret, Autumn and Winter.

Featuring Youth and Community Projects, mentioning Summer Cabaret (Never Again 1986), Autumn and Winter shows and past Community Projects (The Cleobury Wakes and The Withington Bonfire Project) as well as oral history books, Once in a Lifetime and Bucknell in View.

Featuring Becca's Children, All Quiet on the Western Front, '94 [Ninety Four], Playscheme, Open Air Show, Robin Hood.

Including funding, video project, Borderland (video about rural life produced by Nic Millington of Pentabus Arts), youth arts and Mr Corbett's Ghost.

Including working with young people, elderly and people with disabilities, media skills training, playscheme performances, including When the World Was New and the shows Different Drums and Not Guilty

Including Different Drums, The Happy Prince, A Night on the Town (video drama) and media training courses.

With sections on 'Touring', 'Youth' and 'International'.

Featuring images of The Bewdley Pirate, Map of Marvels, Possession and Lobo Wolf (Pentabus in Portugal); Pentabus in the Punjab.

Featuring The Wright Stuff, Comus and The Heart of the Wood. Also, Theatre in Education with Secrets of the Tomb and The Box from the Sea.

An arts and digital media project for schools.

West Midland Regional Arts Education Partnership

Featuring Shot Through the Heart, Missing, Crossing, Magic Sky Magic Earth, Papering Over. Also, young writers, young people and E-Scape project.

Playwriting course.

A ten week course run in association with Belmont Arts Centre and New College, Telford.

Invites UK based playwrights to submit a play for its 2012 season.

With stylised aerial photograph showing location of the Pentabus base.

Series of publicity postcards, featuring the Hay Festival, Origins, Underland, Young Writers Group, This Place, Milked, Strawberry Fields, Precious Bane, White Open Spaces, For Once.

Includes the following shows, as well as writers' courses and general publicity:

The Fire Raisers

Silent Engine

Precious Bane

Strawberry Fields

White Open Spaces

Baskervilles

How Much Is Your Iron?

Kebab

Tales of the Country

For Once

Blue Sky

Feedback forms for The Tree of Life, Iron Mighty and Fair Play

[See also 8872/2 for scripts by performance]

Written by Jacky Hall. Director Dani Parr. Writer in residence Phil Porter.

Written by Becky Prestwich.

Unsolicited script submission. Runner up in ''We Are Here''.

Written by Dawn King.

Noted that it was produced at Finborough Dec 2011, ''Pentabus missed it. Please send next play''.

Written by Katherine Chandler.

Early typescripts.

A collection of old Ballads commemorating Industrial Tragedies in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, By I. J. Brown.

Reprinted from SMC Yearbook 1965-6 Vol. 5

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Including Pentabus in Punjab, University of Chandigarh, 1997

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With typscript programme.

Lichfield Youth Project

An album of words and photographs, depicting aspects of life in and around the village of Worthen from the turn of the century to the beginning of the second world war.

Collected and compiled by the Worthen Local History Group and Pentabus Community Project.

Published by Pentabus.