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Framework Productions was set up by Peter
Avery and Maxine Webster in 1982 with the remit to
facilitate projects which fall outside the normal
funding criteria of grant-awarding bodies or
sponsors. The majority of their work involves
creating projects, largely drama-based, with the over
sixties.
They are
renonwed for encouraging maverick
projects that
are cross-art form, inter-generational or performed
in unconventional surroundings, staged by a rich
variety of arts practitioners.
They apply
an "empty studio" policy to a
project-by-project operation with new teams, spaces
and schedules each time.
Their
approach to work with older people is radical and
ambitious and avoids being solely reminscence-based
and they deliver a year round education programme to
people of all ages, needs and abilities.
