Martin Jakeman is the founder and artistic director of the Winchester based Theatre company, Historical Huzzahs. He explores how theatre and live performances can be used to teach audiences about history in an active and engaging style. Learn how the idea developed from his time performing on the streets of Winchester, hearing the real stories of British citizens on the home front of World War II, working with the illustrator of Horrible Histories, and more.
Martin Jakeman
In 2018, a year after graduating the University of Winchester, Martin started his job at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. It was here that his love for heritage and performance really began to flourish. At the beginning of 2019, with mentoring from the Theatre Royal Winchester (TRW) and Hat Fair, he founded his theatre company Historical Huzzahs. Since then he has co-created Home Fires with the staff and volunteers at TRW and with backing from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Martin and Historical Huzzahs would like to take this opportunity to say;
Thank you to the Theatre Royal Winchester and Winchester Hat Fair for all their support and mentoring, the National Museum of the Royal Navy for giving us a platform to performed our R&D and a big thank you to Heritage Open Days Winchester for the performance opportunities and ongoing their support of emerging artists.
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Martin has always found the combination of performing arts and heritage fascinating. In the summers of 2012-2015 he attended the Ufton Drama Summer School which is held at the stunning tutor manor Ufton Court. It was here he got his first experience of performing in a historical setting. In 2018, a year after graduating the University of Winchester, Martin started his job at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. It was here that his love for heritage and performance really began to flourish. At the beginning of 2019, with mentoring from the Theatre Royal Winchester (TRW) and Hat Fair, he founded his theatre company Historical Huzzahs The company specialises in fun, interacting and accessible history for audiences of all ages and abilities. Since then he has co-created Home Fires with the staff and volunteers at TRW and with backing from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The performative social history project includes collecting stories from local Hampshire residence who lived at the 1939-1945 Home Front. The mix of interactive performance, artifact handily, verbatim accounts and a platform for others to tell their stories has proved extremely popular at the many venues it has toured to across Hampshire.
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