Author: Catherine ItzinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903931557
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
British Alternative Theatre Directory 1983/4
Author: Catherine ItzinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903931557
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
British Sources of Information
Author: P. JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
British Alternative Theatre Directory
Author: The Politics of Performance
Author: Baz KershawPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134932723
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice.
Thatcher's Theatre
Author: D. Keith PeacockPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313031770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become possible to disentangle fact from fantasy concerning her effect on the British theatre. During her administration, there was a significant cultural shift which affected drama in Britain. While some critics have argued that the theatre was simply affected by financial cutbacks in arts subsidies, this volume challenges that view. While it looks at the economic influence of Thatcher's policies, it also examines how her ideology shaped theatrical and dramatic discourse. It begins by defining Thatcherism and illustrating its cultural influence. It then examines the consequences of Thatcherite policies through the agency of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Having established this political and cultural environment, the book considers in detail the effect of Thatcher's administration on the subject-matter and dramatic and theatrical discourse of left-wing drama and on the subsidized political theatre companies which proliferated during the 1970s. Attention is then given to the development of constituency theatres, such as Women's and Black Theatre, which assumed an oppositional cultural stance and, in some cases, attempted to develop characteristic theatrical and dramatic discourses. The penultimate chapter deals with the effect of Thatcherite economic policy and ideology on new writing and performance, while the final chapter draws conclusions and suggests that the cultural shift perpetrated by the Thatcher regime has altered the status of subsidized theatre from an agency of cultural, spiritual, social, or psychological welfare to an entertainment industry which is viewed as largely irrelevant to the workings of society.
British Alternative Theatre Directory 1988
Author: David McGillivrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951228319
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
British alternative theatre directory
Author: Catherine ItzinBritish Alternative Theatre Directory
Author: David McGillivrayPublisher: Time Out
ISBN: 9780951228333
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
British Alternative Theatre Directory
Author: Alan ScraftonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Author: Catherine Itzin