UID:
almahu_9949744252202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xl, 283 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108377850 (ebook)
Serie:
Cambridge companions to theatre and performance
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2024).
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Playwrights : collectivity and collaboration / Dan Rebellato -- Directors : organisation, authorship, and social production / Tom Cornford -- Actors : a history of service / Aoife Monks -- West End and commercial theatre : crisis, change, and continuity / Rachel Clements -- Subsidised theatre : strength, elitism, metropolitanism, racism / Jen Harvie -- The fringe : the rise and fall of radical alternative theatre / Dan Rebellato with Jen Harvie -- Audiences : ownership, interaction, agency / Helen Freshwater -- Black British theatre : blackouts and spotlights / Vanessa Damilola Macaulay -- Queer theatre : reclaiming histories, historicising, and hope / Sarah Jane Mullan -- Government, policy and censorship in post-war British theatre / Louise Owen -- Buildings and the political economy of theatre financing in Britain / Michael McKinnie -- Regions and nations : the myth of levelling up / Trish Reid.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781108421805
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377850
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