UID:
edocfu_9960141165902883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.)
ISBN:
9781474472869
Content:
Written accessibly for the theatre-going general public, this is an ideal guide to the new Scottish theatre: its people, its plays, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Directors, playwrights, journalists and distinguished theatre critics offer personal, challenging and wide-ranging insights into the last 25 years of Scottish theatre.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and Owls: Charting Scottish Theatre --
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Part I STAGES AND COMPANIES --
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One A Scottish National Theatre? --
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Two Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre --
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Three From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish Theatres Old and New --
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Four Glasgow and its Citizens --
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Five The People's Story: 7:84 Scotland --
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Part II PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS --
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Six Language and Identity on the Stage --
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Seven. Plugged into History: the Sense of the Past in Scottish Theatre --
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Eight. In the Jungle of the Cities --
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Nine. Fantasists and Philosophers --
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Ten. The New Wave --
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Eleven. Loose Canons: Identifying a Women's Tradition in Playwriting --
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Part III POLITICS AND PRACTICES --
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Twelve. From Cheviots to Silver Darlings --
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Thirteen. Epic Theatre in Scotland --
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Fourteen. Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition --
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Fifteen. Talking in Tongues: Scottish Translations 1970-1995 --
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Sixteen. Directing for the Scottish Stage --
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Seventeen. Economics, Culture and Playwriting --
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The Scottish Theatre since 1970: A Bibliography --
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About the Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474472869
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474472869
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474472869
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