Bernard Shaw and the British Regional Repertory Movement

Soudabeh Ananisarab (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 204 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-87668-4 (ISBN)

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This book is the first to explore Shaw s full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement. Using extensive archival research to piece together Shaw s connections to regional theatres, this book explores monumental regional productions of Shaw s plays and investigates Shaw s relationships both professional and personal with key figures in the repertory movement. British repertory theatres and companies, with their emphasis on the use of the short run and ensemble acting, played a crucial role in the staging of non-commercial and theatrically experimental work in the early twentieth century. Shaw collaborated extensively with repertory companies, providing them with plays, which offered alternatives to the London trends of the long run and star system. These theatres, in turn, offered Shaw a way to disseminate his radical artistic and political ideas in British locations outside the capital city as well as internationally.

Soudabeh Ananisarab is a Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK. A theatre historian and Shavian scholar, Soudabeh has a strong record of publications in both areas. Since completing her PhD in 2017, she has published in reputable journals in these fields, including SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies and Studies in Theatre and Performance. Soudabeh also has forthcoming chapters in the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre, The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Theatre and in Sean O'Casey in Context. Soudabeh teaches on a wide range of drama and literature modules, covering key texts and movements in twentieth-century British theatre.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Shaw in London.- Chapter 3: Manchester.- Chapter 4: Glasgow.- Chapter 5: Birmingham.- Chapter 6: Malvern.- Chapter 7: Legacies.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Zusatzinfo	XII, 204 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte	Back to Methuselah • Bernard Shaw • British theatre history • heartbreak house • Regional Theatre • Repertory Movement • repertory theatre • Twentieth-Century British Theatre • Widowers' Houses • Widowers’ Houses
ISBN-10	3-031-87668-7 / 3031876687
ISBN-13	978-3-031-87668-4 / 9783031876684
Zustand	Neuware