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 contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionClaire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson and Trish Reid1 Setting the Scene: Ambivalent Encounters/VisibilitiesDavid LintonPART INation/s, Power and Identity2 The Theatre and the State, 1900–1950Trevor R. Griffiths3 Irish National Drama and the British Theatre, 1897–1951Patrick Lonergan4 Theatre, Education and RecreationJane Milling5 “National” TheatresAnselm Heinrich6 Collective Laughter and Political Empowerment in the Comedies of the Suffrage EraEleanor StewartPART IIFixity and Mobility7 Theatre Buildings, 1900–1950Alistair Fair8 Miles from London: Edinburgh and Bristol’s West End CulturesCatherine Hindson9 Popular PlacesNick Havergal10 Transatlantic ExchangesPaul Maloney11 Theatre in World War Two: Taking on the MythsRos MerkinPART IIIBodies in Performance12 Between Representation and Agency: Black Artists in the UK, 1900–1950Tiziana Morosetti13 ‘A Twitchy and Pugnacious Male Culture’: Women and Scottish Theatre, 1900–1950Claire Cochrane and Ksenija Horvat 14 Ensembles and CompaniesPhilippa Burt15 The Performing Body in Music Hall and Variety Theatre: Ambiguities and Blurred BoundariesLouise Peacock16 The Influence of the European Avant-GardeClaire Warden17 British Actor Training, 1900–1950: The Drama-School TurnPeter ZazzaliPART IVThe Materiality of Theatre18 The Labour of Theatre, 1900–1950Lucie Sutherland19 Theatrical Publishing, 1900–1950Andrew Nash20 Consumer EconomiesMatthew Franks21 Postcards, Letters and Magazines: Fan Culture in the early Twentieth CenturyHelen Grime22 Fashioning Costume on the British Stage, 1900–1950Susan MarshallPART VCommunities of Theatre23 Theatre in ‘Other’ Spaces: Welsh Drama and Theatre, 1900–1950Anwen Jones24 Ulster Kitchen Comedy: ‘A Faithful if Unpleasant Picture of the National Fragments’Roy Connolly25 Elite Private Theatricals and the ‘Professional’ AmateurDavid Coates26 Early Twentieth-Century Festival CulturesSoudabeh Ananisarab27 The Children’s Theatre Movement in Early Twentieth-Century London and BirminghamCatherine Hindson and Gemma Colclough Index