A project with second year BA (Hons) Performance students at the University of Salford, working from the "Newgate" Novels of Charles Dickens and Harrison Ainsworth - both visitors to Salford. 74 Performing Arts students studying on the BA (Hons) Programme in the Performance Directorate in the School of Media Music & Performance at Salford University studying approaches to “performing heritage” created some unique and playful interpretations of the stories associated with Ordsall Hall, a Grade I listed building that still contains some of its 14th century fabric.

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A chapter by Richard Talbot about the project appears in Frieze, J (ed.) (2017) ‘She Wants You To Kiss Her - Negotiating Risk In The Immersive Performance Contract’ in Framing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance. Oxford: Palgrave.