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  • 2 October 2023
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Ruff Play

Curious about why bears, performance, and the past are so closely intertwined?

Join the Box Office Bears team, the sports entertainment company Wrestling Resurgence, and like-minded collaborators, for an afternoon exploring the surprising role of bears and other animals in popular performance—historically and today. The day will include talks, discussion and practical elements, including wrestling and drama activities. Whether you are a theatre lover, wrestling enthusiast, combat aficionado, Shakespeare fanatic, or all the above and more, this hands (and paws) on workshop will have something for everyone.
  • by Sam West

Ruff Play

A bearward of questionable repute assembles her band of battling bears of varying sizes in the playfight wrestling school, London...

  • by Hannah O’Regan

Hibernating or Working? Early Modern Bears at Christmas

I have frequently been asked when I talk about the BOB project, “did the bears hibernate”? We can answer this question in two ways: by looking at what we know about modern bears, and by looking at archival accounts.