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 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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