The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson & Trish Reid

PART I

Nation/s, Power and Identity

1 A Black History of English Theatre in the 1950s

Kate Dorney

2 Versions of State Intervention

Ian Brown

3 Canon Formation Before and After the 1968 Theatres Act

Benjamin Poore

4 Re-envisioning European Theatre: adaptation as strategy and metaphor in the British

South Asian Theatre Companies of Tara Arts and Tamasha

Jerri Daboo

5 Theatre and Performance in Northern Ireland Through and Beyond the Troubles

Tom Maguire

6 Institutions: The Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre

Sophie Duncan

PART II

Fixity and Mobility

7 Performing (in the Sites of) Changing National Landscapes: British Site-Specific

and Site-Related Theatre of the 1960s-1990s

Alex Watson

8 'The Art of Closeness': The Case of Rural Touring Theatre in the English Midlands

Gemma Edwards and Jo Robinson

9 The World Theatre Season 1964-1975: International work on the British Stage

Helen Gush

10 Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970s

Kerrie Reading

PART III

Bodies in Performance

11 Constituency Theatres: Women's Collectives 1973-1990

Sarah Gorman

12 LGBTQ+ theatre from the 1980s to the end of the millennium

Stephen Greer

13 Black British Women Theatre Directors as Artistic Leaders: The Careers of Yvonne Brewster, Denise Wong, and Paulette Randall

Lynette Goddard

14 Disability Theatres: 1970-2000

Kirsty Johnston

15 Physical Theatre: Outbreak and Absorption

Franc Chamberlain

PART IV

The Materiality of Theatre

16 The 'Ignoble Ambition': English Regional Producing Theatre and Popular Priorities

Claire Cochrane

17 A Background of Slog: Work and the British Theatre, 1950-1999

Tom Six

18 Theatre and Television Plays, Personnel and Practices

Stephen Lacey

19 '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 Taylor

20 Threads in the Skein: Scenography in Britain 1950-2000

Christopher Baugh

21 Theatre Archives and Archiving

Jill Sullivan

PART V

Communities of Theatre

22 Community Theatre: 1950-2000

Kerrie Schaefer

23 Theatre and Younger Audiences

Ben Fletcher-Watson

24 Making Your Own: Amateur Theatre 1950-2000

Cara Gray

25 Playwriting and its Contexts: The Traverse

Trish Reid

26 'Who Are Yous? What Ye Gannae Do?': The British Alternative Theatre Movement and Regional Comedy

Rosalind Haslett

Index