Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

Claire Cochrane is Professor Emeritus of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, UK.Lynette Goddard is Professor of Black Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Catherine Hindson is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Bristol, UK.Trish Reid is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Reading, UK.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson & Trish Reid PART I Nation/s, Power and Identity 1 A Black History of English Theatre in the 1950sKate Dorney2 Versions of State InterventionIan Brown3 Canon Formation Before and After the 1968 Theatres Act Benjamin Poore4 Re-envisioning European Theatre: adaptation as strategy and metaphor in the BritishSouth Asian Theatre Companies of Tara Arts and TamashaJerri Daboo5 Theatre and Performance in Northern Ireland Through and Beyond the TroublesTom Maguire6 Institutions: The Royal Shakespeare Company and the National TheatreSophie Duncan PART II Fixity and Mobility 7 Performing (in the Sites of) Changing National Landscapes: British Site-Specificand Site-Related Theatre of the 1960s-1990sAlex Watson8 ‘The Art of Closeness’: The Case of Rural Touring Theatre in the English MidlandsGemma Edwards and Jo Robinson9 The World Theatre Season 1964-1975: International work on the British StageHelen Gush 10 Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970sKerrie Reading PART III Bodies in Performance 11 Constituency Theatres: Women’s Collectives 1973-1990Sarah Gorman12 LGBTQ+ theatre from the 1980s to the end of the millenniumStephen Greer13 Black British Women Theatre Directors as Artistic Leaders: The Careers of Yvonne Brewster, Denise Wong, and Paulette RandallLynette Goddard14 Disability Theatres: 1970-2000Kirsty Johnston15 Physical Theatre: Outbreak and AbsorptionFranc Chamberlain PART IV The Materiality of Theatre 16 The ‘Ignoble Ambition’: English Regional Producing Theatre and Popular PrioritiesClaire Cochrane17 A Background of Slog: Work and the British Theatre, 1950-1999Tom Six18 Theatre and Television Plays, Personnel and Practices Stephen Lacey19 ‘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 Taylor20 Threads in the Skein: Scenography in Britain 1950-2000Christopher Baugh21 Theatre Archives and ArchivingJill Sullivan PART V Communities of Theatre 22 Community Theatre: 1950-2000Kerrie Schaefer 23 Theatre and Younger AudiencesBen Fletcher-Watson24 Making Your Own: Amateur Theatre 1950-2000Cara Gray 25 Playwriting and its Contexts: The TraverseTrish Reid 26 ‘Who Are Yous? What Ye Gannae Do?’: The British Alternative Theatre Movement and Regional ComedyRosalind HaslettIndex