Browsing Department of Drama by Subject "theatre"
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Chronology of British Theatre Since 1945
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)A chronology of theatre events and public events in Britain from 1945-2022. -
The Housing Crisis, Art, and Performance
The work I look at here responds particularly to being part of a new class known as Generation Rent. Facing what critic Lauren Berlant has influentially termed the ‘cruel optimism’ of desiring something which actually ... -
'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love: Staging Relational Care with Lois Weaver and Split Britches
(Routledge Companions, 2022-08-01)Drawing on the five phases of care identified by Joan C. Tronto and two long interviews with Split Britches co-director Lois Weaver, this chapter argues that Weaver is an exemplary theatrical practitioner of the many ... -
International Theatre Festivals in the UK: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Model Neo-liberal Market
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-30)This chapter focuses on the UK’s biggest and most internationally influential festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (EFF), analyzing its benefits and risks, particularly for its artists and especially as an unregulated ... -
Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)British theatre’s post-war cultural impact would be hard to deny, having produced generations of actors, writers, directors, and designers who have populated the world’s stages and screens. This vitality has often been ... -
Memory, Silence, and Democracy in Spain: Federico García Lorca, the Spanish Civil War, and the Law of Historical Memory
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-05-15)What does it mean to unearth the dead? What is contemporary society’s responsibility to the disappeared? How do we live with the ghosts of history? In the midst of the search for the body of Federico García Lorca in 2009, ... -
Subsidised Theatre: Strength, Elitism, Metropolitanism, Racism
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)This chapter examines the newly expanded and transformed theatre ecology enabled by the post-war rise of central government subsidy to the arts. It explores subsidy’s ambitions, achievements, and benefits, but also its ...