Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity - 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 Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity write by Ian Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-20. Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging the dominant view of a broken and discontinuous dramatic culture in Scotland, this book outlines the variety and richness of the nation ́s performance traditions and multilingual theatre history. Brown illuminates enduring strands of hybridity and diversity which use theatre and theatricality as a means of challenging establishment views, and of exploring social, political, and religious change. He describes the ways in which politically and religiously divisive moments in Scottish history, such as the Reformation and political Union, fostered alternative dramatic modes and means of expression. This major revisionist history also analyses the changing relationships between drama, culture, and political change in Scotland in the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the work of an extensive range of modern and contemporary Scottish playwrights and drama practitioners. Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor of Drama at Kingston University, London. Until recently Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, he was General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Scottish Theatre (EUP, 2007) and editor of From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (EUP, 2010) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (EUP, 2011). He has published widely on theatre, cultural policy and literature and language.
Nation, community, self
Nation, community, self - 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 Nation, community, self write by Gioia Angeletti. This book was released on 2019-01-18T00:00:00+01:00. Nation, community, self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure. The three macro-thematic areas of the book – the rewriting of the Shakespearean canon; the representation of female communities and minorities; and the conflicts between the self and society – find significant and paradigmatic expression in their dramas. All seven writers examined in this book have explored new theatrical methods, introduced aesthetic innovations and opened new perspectives to engage with the complexities of national, community and individual identities. This study will surely contribute to wider recognition of their achievement, so that their work can never again be described as “uncharted territory”.
Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969
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.
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.
