The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

Volume Two: 1950–2000

Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, Trish Reid (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-49572-5 (ISBN)

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This volume explores diverse theatrical models from the latter half of the 20th century, featuring various artists, enthusiasts, and audiences. It constructs an equitable history of British theatre that better represents the nation's lived experience than conventional narratives.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers and audiences that emerged over this formative hundred‑year period.

This second volume covers the second half of the century, constructing an equitable and inclusive history that is more representative of the nation's lived experience than the traditional narrative of British theatre. Its approach is intra-national - weaving together the theatres and communities of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as being thematic, breaking down its coverage into sections that address nation, power and identity; fixity and mobility; bodies in performance; theatre communities, and the materiality of theatre. This approach exposes the synergies, convergences and divergences of the theatre world in Britain during this period, giving a sense of the sheer variety of performance that was taking place at any given moment in time.

This is a fascinating and indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, postgraduate researchers and scholars across theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and twentieth century history.

Claire Cochrane is Professor Emeritus of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, UK. Lynette Goddard is Professor of Black Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Catherine Hindson is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Bristol, UK. Trish Reid is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Reading, UK.

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson & Trish Reid

PART I

Nation/s, Power and Identity

1 A Black History of English Theatre in the 1950s

Kate Dorney

2 Versions of State Intervention

Ian Brown

3 Canon Formation Before and After the 1968 Theatres Act

Benjamin Poore

4 Re-envisioning European Theatre: adaptation as strategy and metaphor in the British

South Asian Theatre Companies of Tara Arts and Tamasha

Jerri Daboo

5 Theatre and Performance in Northern Ireland Through and Beyond the Troubles

Tom Maguire

6 Institutions: The Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre

Sophie Duncan

PART II

Fixity and Mobility

7 Performing (in the Sites of) Changing National Landscapes: British Site-Specific

and Site-Related Theatre of the 1960s-1990s

Alex Watson

8 ‘The Art of Closeness’: The Case of Rural Touring Theatre in the English Midlands

Gemma Edwards and Jo Robinson

9 The World Theatre Season 1964-1975: International work on the British Stage

Helen Gush

10 Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970s

Kerrie Reading

PART III

Bodies in Performance

11 Constituency Theatres: Women’s Collectives 1973-1990

Sarah Gorman

12 LGBTQ+ theatre from the 1980s to the end of the millennium

Stephen Greer

13 Black British Women Theatre Directors as Artistic Leaders: The Careers of Yvonne Brewster, Denise Wong, and Paulette Randall

Lynette Goddard

14 Disability Theatres: 1970-2000

Kirsty Johnston

15 Physical Theatre: Outbreak and Absorption

Franc Chamberlain

PART IV

The Materiality of Theatre

16 The ‘Ignoble Ambition’: English Regional Producing Theatre and Popular Priorities

Claire Cochrane

17 A Background of Slog: Work and the British Theatre, 1950-1999

Tom Six

18 Theatre and Television Plays, Personnel and Practices

Stephen Lacey

19 ‘Why’d you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?’: Transforming technologies and practices in the megamusicals of the 1970s and 80s.

Millie Taylor

20 Threads in the Skein: Scenography in Britain 1950-2000

Christopher Baugh

21 Theatre Archives and Archiving

Jill Sullivan

PART V

Communities of Theatre

22 Community Theatre: 1950-2000

Kerrie Schaefer

23 Theatre and Younger Audiences

Ben Fletcher-Watson

24 Making Your Own: Amateur Theatre 1950-2000

Cara Gray

25 Playwriting and its Contexts: The Traverse

Trish Reid

26 ‘Who Are Yous? What Ye Gannae Do?’: The British Alternative Theatre Movement and Regional Comedy

Rosalind Haslett

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Companions
Zusatzinfo	8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	890 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	0-367-49572-4 / 0367495724
ISBN-13	978-0-367-49572-5 / 9780367495725
Zustand	Neuware