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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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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 |
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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. |