'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never
having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his
Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in Scotland
for more than three decades. As drama critic successively for The
Guardian, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman, she has reviewed
thousands of plays. During that time she has borne witness to an
extraordinary cultural and political renaissance in Scotland,
reflected in the newfound confidence of its playwrights, in the
vibrancy of its theatre culture and in its recent outburst of new
theatre companies. Compiled by McMillan and the theatre director,
Philip Howard, Theatre in Scotland is a panoramic history of modern
Scottish theatre, reported from the frontline. It traces the
remarkable journey of Scottish theatre towards its new
self-confidence: the road to 1990, when Glasgow was European
Capital of Culture; followed by the explosive expansion of the
1990s; culminating in the emergence of the National Theatre of
Scotland and its drive to bring theatre culture right into the
heart of the nation. Gathered here are the leading Scottish
playwrights, from John Byrne to Liz Lochhead, from David Greig to
David Harrower, as well as the full breadth of English playwrights,
from Shakespeare to Pinter. There are reflections on the great
Scottish plays, classic - Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Men
Should Weep - and modern - Black Watch, The James Plays. There are
reports not only from the urban theatre centres of Edinburgh and
Glasgow but from all over Scotland; and from the feast that is the
Edinburgh Festival, to the nourishing A Play, A Pie and A Pint. A
leading thinker and writer about Scotland, McMillan has an
incomparable ability to detect the wider cultural resonances in
Scottish theatre, and to reveal what it can tell us about Scotland
as a whole. Her book serves as a portrait of a nation and a shared
cultural life, where visions of 'what we have been, what we are,
and what we might become' are played out in sharp focus on its
stages. 'When Scottish theatre works [its] magic over the coming
years, I will be there, to try to catch the moment in print, and to
tell it as it was. And believe me, on the good nights and the bad
ones, the privilege will be mine: to be paid to go looking for joy,
and occasionally to find it.' Joyce McMillan 'Joyce has an
unrivalled passion and hunger for theatre - to be surprised by it,
challenged by it, moved by it. Her prose when describing something
which has done just this is inspiring and affecting.' Vicky
Featherstone
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