Modern British playwriting. voices, documents, new interpretations / The 1980s :
This volume equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context and of the playwrights and companies such as Complicite and DV8 that rose...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Methuen Drama,
2012.
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| Series: | Decades of modern British playwriting.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- General Preface by series editors Richard Boon and Philip Roberts
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the 1980s
- Domestic life
- Education
- Culture
- Media
- Science, technology and industry
- Political events
- Theatre in the 1980s
- Thinking about the recent past
- Institutions, policies and funding
- New writing and playwrights in the 1980s
- Cultures of protest: issue as subject matter
- Present pasts
- Introducing the Playwrights
- Crafting careers
- Howard Barker
- Jim Cartwright
- Sarah Daniels
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Playwrights and Plays
- Howard Barker by Sarah Goldingay
- Jim Cartwright by David Lane
- Sarah Daniels by Jane Milling
- Timberlake Wertenbaker by Sara Freeman
- Documents
- Howard Barker: Interview with Jane Milling
- Jim Cartwright: In His Own Words
- Sarah Daniels: Interview with Jane Milling
- Timberlake Wertenbaker: In Her Own Words
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Notes on Contributors
