Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Brith Gof Archive, (GB 0210 BRIGOF) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 05, 2017 Printed: May 05, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/brith-gof-archive-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/brith-gof-archive-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Brith Gof Archive, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 4 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 5 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 6 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 6 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 BRIGOF Brith Gof Archive, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Brith Gof Archive, ID: GB 0210 BRIGOF Virtua system control vtls004285452 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000285452 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: [1974]-[2007] / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 56 large boxes, 11 small boxes, 15 outsize folders, 8 rolls, 5 outsize Physical description: bundles, 2 outsize envelopes, 1 item and 1 outsize volume; 8 large crates end of November 2012; 1.723 cubic metres. Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Welsh Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title supplied from contents of fonds. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note Audio-visual and video material has been transferred to the National [generalNote]: Screen and Sound Archive Wales and digital and electronic material has been separated and are awaiting cataloguing. Nodyn | Note Also 1 file of photographs received November 2012. [generalNote]: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 BRIGOF Brith Gof Archive, Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note Brith Gof was founded in 1981 by Mike Pearson and Lis Hughes Jones, following their departure from Cardiff Laboratory Theatre. Initially they were based in Aberystwyth and were resident in the Barn Centre throughout the 1980s. In [?1987] they relocated to Cardiff but returned to West Wales in 1994 to the University of Lampeter. Whilst at the Barn Centre they met the artist Clifford McLucas who began to design elements for their performances. He eventually became a full time member of the artistic team and he and Mike Pearson became joint artistic directors of the company. Brith Gof’s work in the beginning was influenced by Welsh traditions such as music and song, poetry, oratory and preaching and they developed a performance style that mixed speech and song, soliloquy and physical action. Productions were almost always created as a hybrid of four elements – physical actions, scenography, text and music. Their work also became increasingly political, drawing on aspects of Welsh history and also experiences of cultural and economic decline. Although the company created formal indoor and street performances, increasingly they concentrated on creating events for special occasions and locations and created work for non-theatrical spaces such as barns, chapels, cattle markets and farms. A further development was to build their own staging units so that a performance could be staged at any venue bringing with it its own floor, seating or lighting. The company created a variety of small, medium and eventually large scale site- specific work and in 1988, in collaboration with the industrial music group Test Dept., their first large scale site-specific production, Gododdin, was created. After this the company concentrated on pioneering site-specific performances and two more large-scale site-specific productions followed, namely Pax (1989-1991) and Haearn (1992). Over the years the company performed in a variety of unusual locations such as disused factories, working sand quarries, ice hockey stadiums, railway stations and forests and their work was staged in various locations around the world including Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, South America and Hong Kong. They collaborated with a number of foreign companies including Osmego Dnia (Poland), Farfa (Denmark), Theaterlabor (Germany), Grenland Friteater (Norway), La Fura Dels Baus (Spain) and Sand and Bricks (Hong Kong). Brith Gof came to be recognised as Wales’ leading performance group, setting the standards for site-specific practice in Britain and Europe. Brith Gof was also committed to pedagogical activities. The company held training and educational projects for students and also workshops, demonstrations and training programmes for wider groups of Welsh practitioners and joint projects with other Welsh and foreign groups. The company also tried to reach a wider audience through the production of television programmes. In 2004 the company was closed. Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content Papers of Brith Gof, including correspondence, papers and photographs relating to the company’s site specific and theatre productions, projects, and television productions; together with administrative papers relating to company productions and company business and information papers; and general papers relating to the company and its work, site specific theatre and theatre in Wales. A further consignment of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 BRIGOF Brith Gof Archive, 8 crates Brith Gof's administrative papers were received from Mike Pearson, November 2012. This group remains uncatalogued. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Ms Margaret Ames; Llanilar; Donation; 2003-2006; 0200301637. Lis Hughes Jones per Mike Pearson; Aberystwyth; Donation; November 2012 Giles Parbery per Mike Pearson; Aberystwyth; Donation; October 2012 Centre for Performance Research per Amy Staniforth; Aberystwyth; Donation; August 2012 Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged at NLW into four groups: site specific and theatre productions and projects; television productions; administrative papers; and general papers. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material See also the Clifford McLucas Archive for related papers. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are possible. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 BRIGOF Brith Gof Archive, Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Jones, Lis Hughes (pwnc) | (subject) • Pearson, Mike, 1949- (pwnc) | (subject) • Theatrical companies -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Wales. (lle) | (place) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container P. vtls006247603 Otherlevel - Site-specific and theatre [1974]-[2000], P. productions and projects, 2007. PA. vtls006366627 Otherlevel - 1981 productions: Branwen, [1981]. PA. Rhiannon, Gaeafdaith, PA/1. vtls006366635 File - Branwen and Rhosys Cochion: [1981]. Readers consulting PA/1 (1). scores, modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library. PA/2. vtls006366677 File - Branwen: documents, texts and [1981]. Readers consulting PA/2 (1). worksheets, modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information