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
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