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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period.
This second volume covers the second half of the century, constructing an equitable and inclusive history that is more representative of the nation's lived experience than the traditional narrative of British theatre. Its approach is intra-national - weaving together the theatres and communities of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as being thematic, breaking down its coverage into sections that address nation, power and identity; fixity and mobility; bodies in performance; theatre communities, and the materiality of theatre. This approach exposes the synergies, convergences and divergences of the theatre world in Britain during this period, giving a sense of the sheer variety of performance that was taking place at any given moment in time.
This is a fascinating and indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, postgraduate researchers and scholars across theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and Twentieth Century history.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson & Trish Reid
PART I
Nation/s, Power and Identity
1 A Black History of English Theatre
Kate Dorney
2 Versions of State Intervention
Ian Brown
3 Canon Formation Before and After the 1968 Theatres Act
Benjamin Poore
4 Re-envisioning European Theatre: adaptation as strategy and metaphor in the British
South Asian Theatre Companies of Tara Arts and Tamasha
Jerri Daboo
5 Theatre and Performance in Northern Ireland Through and Beyond the Troubles
Tom Maguire
6 Institutions: The Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre
Sophie Duncan
PART II
Fixity and Mobility
7 Performing (in the Sites of) Changing National Landscapes: British Site-Specific
and Site-Related Theatre of the 1960s-1990s
Alex Watson
8 'The Art of Closeness': The Case of Rural Touring Theatre in the English Midlands
Jo Robinson and Gemma Edwards
9 The World Theatre Season 1964-1975: International work on the British Stage
Helen Gush
10 Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970s
Kerrie Reading
PART III
Bodies in Performance
11 Constituency Theatres: Women's Collectives 1973-1990
Sarah Gorman
12 LGBTQ+ theatre from the 80s to the end of the millennium
Steve Greer
13 Black British Women Theatre Directors as Artistic Leaders: The Careers of Yvonne Brewster, Denise Wong, and Paulette Randall
Lynette Goddard
14 Disability Theatres: 1970-2000
Kirsty Johnston
15 Physical Theatre Outbreak and Absorption
Franc Chamberlain
PART IV
The Materiality of Theatre
16 The 'Ignoble Ambition': English Regional Producing Theatre and Popular Priorities
Claire Cochrane
17 A Background of Slog: Work and the British Theatre, 1950-1999
Tom Six
18 Theatre and Television Plays, Personnel and Practices
Stephen Lacey
19 'Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?': Transforming technologies and practices in the megamusicals of the 1970s and 80s.
Millie Taylor
20 Scenography in Britain 1950-2000
Chris Baugh
21 Theatre Archives and Archiving
Jill Sullivan
PART V
Communities of Theatre
22 Community Theatre: 1950-2000
Kerrie Schaefer
23 Theatre and Younger Audiences
Ben Fletcher-Watson
24 Making Your Own: Amateur Theatre 1950-2000
Cara Gray
25 Playwriting and its Contexts: The Traverse
Trish Reid
26 'Who Are Yous? What Ye Gannae Do?': The British Alternative Theatre Movement and Regional Comedy
Rosalind Haslett
Index
