The Stephen Joseph Studio is a former German Protestant Church, now part of the

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, in

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, England. It used to lie on Wright Street (off Ducie Street), a street which no longer exists (

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). It was mentioned in the Manchester Directory for 1858, with the pastor's name H. E. Marotsky (Hermann Eduard Marotsky); it should not be confused with the German Church in John Dalton Street, established by Joseph Steinthal in 1854.Frangopulo (1962) p. 116 gives a date of 1871, perhaps the date of this building It was first occupied by the university in 1949 and had various uses before its use by the Department of Drama. The main entrance lies on the west side of the building, with a side entrance on the north. The east side features a rose window. The building houses seven lecture rooms, with space for up to 179 students. It is named after

Stephen Joseph Stephen Joseph (13 June 1921 – 4 October 1967)Colin Chambers (ed.) ''The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre,'' London: Continuum, 2002, p.410 was an English stage director and pioneer of "theatre in the round." Life Stephen J ...

, the pioneer of

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. Since the late 1970s the Mansfield Cooper Building has stood to the south-west.

References

*Coates, Su (=S. D. F. Thomas) (1991) "Manchester's German Gentlemen ... 1840-1920" in: ''Manchester Region History Review'', vol. 5, no. 2, 1991/2; pp. 24 *Williams, Bill (1976) ''The Making of Manchester Jewry, 1740-1875''. Manchester: U. P. ; p. 334

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