Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 write by Mark Brown. This book was released on 2018-12-30. Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre director Giles Havergal at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1969 through to the advent of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006. Finally, the book contemplates the future of Scotland’s theatrical renaissance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre and/or the modern history of live drama in Scotland.
Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland
Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland write by Trish Reid. This book was released on . Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945
The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 write by Jen Harvie. This book was released on 2024-02-29. The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing), theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities (audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood). Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory, queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Performing Scottishness
Performing Scottishness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Scottishness write by Ian Brown. This book was released on 2020-02-13. Performing Scottishness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries. Alongside theatre, television, comedy, and film, it explores performativity in public events, Anglo-Scottish relations, language and literary practice, the Scottish diaspora and concepts of nation, borders and hybridity. Following discussion of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and the real meanings of the 1706/7 Treaty of Union, it examines the differing perceptions of what the ‘United Kingdom’ means to Scots and English. It contrasts the treatment of Shakespeare and Burns as ‘national bards’ and considers the implications of Scottish scholars’ invention of ‘English Literature’. It engages with Scotland’s language politics –rebutting claims of a ‘Gaelic Gestapo’ – and how borders within Scotland interact. It replaces myths about ‘tartan monsters’ with level-headed evidence before discussing in detail representations of Scottishness in domestic and international media.
Theatre and its Audiences
Theatre and its Audiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and its Audiences write by Kate Craddock. This book was released on 2024-01-25. Theatre and its Audiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. Proposing that the pandemic forced a re-evaluation of what it means to be an audience, and combining historical and current cultural sector perspectives, the book reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Helen Freshwater examines the ways in which developments in technology, architecture and forms of communication have influenced what is expected by and of audiences, reflecting changes in theatre's cultural status and place in our lives. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of festival director and performance practitioner Kate Craddock, it also contends that practitioners now need to turn their attention to care, access and sustainability, arguing that the pandemic taught us, above all, that it is possible to do things differently. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, Theatre and its Audiences offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here.
