Project Partner: Dash Arts

We are delighted to work with Dash Arts on The Great Middlemarch Mystery. Part-immersive theatre experience and part-mystery game, this multi-location production puts a modern twist on George Eliot’s Middlemarch and its story of the hopes, dreams, disappointments and scandals lived out within a Midlands town.

Taking place 7 – 10 April 2002, as part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. Tickets will go on sale in early 2022.

Do you want to take part? Check out our participation opportunities for this project.

Dash Arts creates exceptional artistic experiences that bridge divides across art forms, cultures, languages and communities. Over the last 15 years, we’ve created award-winning new work with over 9,000 artists and participants for audiences of over 350,000 worldwide. Our international productions, live and digital events and education programmes expand the way we see the world. Dash Arts is led by Chief Executive and Artistic Director Josephine Burton.

Research Assistant: Tim Moore

Tim Moore is Research Administration Assistant on the ‘Provincialism: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Middleness in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ project. He is a visiting tutor and doctoral researcher at the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. He is due to finish his doctoral thesis on representations of adolescence in nineteenth-century literature in 2021, and is helping co-ordinate project events, seminars, and blog posts.

Ruth Livesey, Principal Investigator

Ruth is Principal Investigator of the AHRC Leadership Fellowship, ‘Provincialism: Literature and the Cultural Politics of Middleness in Nineteenth-Century Britain’. She is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought in the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work adapting and co-writing the Great Middlemarch Mystery with Josephine Burton forms part of the larger AHRC funded engagement project ‘Finding Middlemarch in Coventry 2021′.