Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies / / Randall Stevenson, Gavin Wallace.

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 insigh...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1996
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction: Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and Owls: Charting Scottish Theatre --
Part I STAGES AND COMPANIES --
One A Scottish National Theatre? --
Two Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre --
Three From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish Theatres Old and New --
Four Glasgow and its Citizens --
Five The People's Story: 7:84 Scotland --
Part II PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS --
Six Language and Identity on the Stage --
Seven. Plugged into History: the Sense of the Past in Scottish Theatre --
Eight. In the Jungle of the Cities --
Nine. Fantasists and Philosophers --
Ten. The New Wave --
Eleven. Loose Canons: Identifying a Women's Tradition in Playwriting --
Part III POLITICS AND PRACTICES --
Twelve. From Cheviots to Silver Darlings --
Thirteen. Epic Theatre in Scotland --
Fourteen. Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition --
Fifteen. Talking in Tongues: Scottish Translations 1970-1995 --
Sixteen. Directing for the Scottish Stage --
Seventeen. Economics, Culture and Playwriting --
The Scottish Theatre since 1970: A Bibliography --
About the Contributors --
Index
Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474472869
9783110780475
DOI:10.1515/9781474472869
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Randall Stevenson, Gavin Wallace.