Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre

Politics, Aesthetics and Forms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part of the establishment. Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre at long last puts these small-scale British theatre companies and personalities in the scholarly spotlight. By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners, contributors articulate how it is reflected in the goals, manifestos and aesthetics of these companies.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-02-15
Mått178 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt621 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781783202973

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Dr. Victor I. Ukaegbu is a senior lecturer and course leader for Drama at The University of Northampton. He has written on African and intercultural theatres, postcolonial performances, gender, black British theatre, applied theatre, including a book; The Use of Masks in Igbo Theatre in Nigeria: the Aesthetic Flexibility of Performance Traditions. He is Associate Editor of African Performance Review and a member of the Editorial Board of World Scenography(Africa/Middle East).Patrick Duggan's research interests lie in critical approaches to contemporary performance and the relationship between performance and the wider socio-cultural and political contexts in which it is made. He has recently published a monograph investigating the relationship between contemporary performance and trauma and his continuing research examines the relationship between cultural products and practices and their wider social contexts. Engaging with poststructuralist and political philosophy, Duggan's research is interdisciplinary in nature and particularly focused on questions of spectatorship, witnessing, trauma and ethics and is concerned to explore the socio-political efficacy of theatre, performance and other cultural practices.

Setting the Scene: Introducing Reverberations – Patrick Duggan and Victor UkaegbuChapter 1: Foco Novo: The Icarus of British Small-Scale Touring Theatre – Graham SaundersChapter 2: Insider Knowledge: The Evolution of Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre Company – David GrantChapter 3: Volcano: A Post-Punk Physical Theatre – Gareth SomersChapter 4: Tiata Fahodzi: Second-Generation Africans in British Theatre – Ekua EkumahChapter 5: Keeping It Together: Talawa Theatre Company, Britishness, Aesthetics of Scale and Mainstreaming the Black-British Experience – Kene IgweonuChapter 6: Agitation and Entertainment: Rod Dixon and Red Ladder Theatre – Tony GardnerChapter 7: Intercultural to Cross-Cultural Theatre: Tara Arts and the Development of British Asian Theatre – Victor UkaegbuChapter 8: Kind Acts: Lone Twin Theatre – Eirini KartsakiChapter 9: Political Theatre ‘without Finger-Wagging’: On the Paper Birds and Integrative Aesthetics – Patrick DugganChapter 10: ‘Angels and Modern Myth’: Grid Iron and the New Scottish Theatre – Trish ReidChapter 11: Acts of Poiesis: salamanda tandem – Mick Wallis and Isabel JonesCoda – Franc Chamberlain