Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre
Politics, Aesthetics and Forms
Patrick Duggan editor Victor I Ukaegbu editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Intellect Books
Published:15th Feb '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part of the establishment. Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre at long last puts these small-scale British theatre companies and personalities in the scholarly spotlight. By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners, contributors articulate how it is reflected in the goals, manifestos and aesthetics of these companies.
'This rich, fascinating text will hopefully inspire debate within the academy, and provide valuable insight into a wide range of companies as Britishness reaches a crossroads.'
-- Scottish Journal of Performance, Ben Fletcher-Watson'There is no other collection about British theatre companies like this: one that embraces smallness, employs its postcolonial approach so deftly to subjects both racially marked and unmarked and which treats company histories in such nuanced, concrete ways.'
-- Sara Freeman, Contemporary Theatre Review'This book, then, is a valuable resource for academics and students alike, because it generously throws open methodological and archival questions, provides information about the working practices of a range of innovative companies (linked, perhaps, by their demonstrations of resistance, resilience and creativity) and works to pose critical questions about the theatre ecology of Britain over the past 30 years. '
-- Rachel Clements, Studies in Theatre and PerformISBN: 9781783202973
Dimensions: 229mm x 178mm x 16mm
Weight: 621g
250 pages