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Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.
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Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780470766125
- Artikelnr.: 37299003
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780470766125
- Artikelnr.: 37299003
Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century British theatre and is the author of Joan Littlewood's Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Theatre & Nation (Palgrave, 2010) and Joan Littlewood (Routledge, 2006). She has also edited John McGrath's collected writings on theatre, Naked Thoughts That Roam About (Nick Hern, 2002) and his Plays for England (Exeter University Press, 2005). Mary Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Drama and co-founder of the prestigious new Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York. She has edited A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama (Blackwell 2006) and is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), On Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999), and On Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002) and Playing for Real (Palgrave 2010). She is a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and in 2012-13 was among 14 leading UK scholars to be awarded an international scholarship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to theatre pedagogy and research.
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223 11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263 Sarah Gorman Index 283
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National
Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and
Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You
Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire
Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith
Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II
Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific
Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in
Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary
Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III
The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre
of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question
of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and
Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223
11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to
Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British
Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263
Sarah Gorman Index 283
Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National
Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and
Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You
Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire
Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith
Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II
Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific
Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in
Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary
Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III
The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre
of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question
of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and
Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223
11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to
Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British
Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263
Sarah Gorman Index 283
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223 11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263 Sarah Gorman Index 283
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National
Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and
Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You
Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire
Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith
Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II
Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific
Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in
Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary
Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III
The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre
of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question
of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and
Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223
11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to
Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British
Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263
Sarah Gorman Index 283
Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National
Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and
Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 'I'll See You
Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire
Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith
Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II
Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific
Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in
Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary
Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III
The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre
of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question
of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and
Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223
11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to
Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British
Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263
Sarah Gorman Index 283