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It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the
doldrums by the "revolutionary" appearance of John Osborne's "Look
Back in Anger" at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre
been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed?
Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed
and closeted as it seems?
In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of
the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers
a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining
Empire and increasing panic over the "problem" of homosexuality
played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of
the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously
questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of
the making of modern British drama.
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama. eBook available with sample pages: 0203009991
Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of
key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by
finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's
society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with
Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers
a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the
most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their
work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they
move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the
contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars
and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring
playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and
genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and
interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students
and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will
leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting
relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the
alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of
playmaking in European theatre since 1989.
This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary
plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for
the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it
considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from
the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of
different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays
by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of
dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide
provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks,
examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone
their craft.
This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre
Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the
key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years.
This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken
in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly
in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter
discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their
work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the
complex relation it has with its social and cultural context. The
volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany,
France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium,
Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering a broad and
international picture of the directing landscape. Now revised and
updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text
for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well
as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a
detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were
forged and tempered in the changing Europe following the end of the
Cold War.
Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of
key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by
finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's
society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with
Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers
a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the
most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their
work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they
move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the
contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars
and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring
playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and
genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and
interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students
and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will
leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting
relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the
alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of
playmaking in European theatre since 1989.
This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre
Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the
key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years.
This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken
in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly
in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter
discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their
work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the
complex relation it has with its social and cultural context. The
volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany,
France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium,
Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering a broad and
international picture of the directing landscape. Now revised and
updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text
for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well
as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a
detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were
forged and tempered in the changing Europe following the end of the
Cold War.
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Pomona (Paperback)
Alistair McDowall; Volume editing by Dan Rebellato
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R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up
tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in
desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned
concrete island at the heart of the city. Here at the centre of
everything, journeys end and nightmares are born. Pomona premiered
in 2014 and has subsequently become a much-produced and widely
studied drama text. It is published here as a Student Edition
alongside commentary and notes by Dan Rebellato. The ancillary
material is geared at students and includes: - an introduction
outlining the play's plot, character, themes context and
performance history - the full text of the play - a chronology of
the playwright's life and work - extensive textual notes -
questions for further study This play includes some strong
language.
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in
the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the
historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not
only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a
critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands
understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as
funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to
legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through
changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing),
theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities
(audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's
relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood).
Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading,
it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory,
queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to
demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British
theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades
of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive
survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the
1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical
analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights
from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an
extensive commentary on the period . Edited by Dan Rebellato,
Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009 provides an authoritative and
stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the decade, together
with a detailed study of the work of David Greig (Nadine
Holdsworth), Simon Stephens (Jacqueline Bolton), Tim Crouch (Dan
Rebellato), Roy Williams (Michael Pearce) and Debbie Tucker Green
(Lynette Goddard). The volume sets the context by providing a
chronological survey of the decade, one marked by the War on
Terror, the excesses of economic globalization and the digital
revolution. In surveying the theatrical activity and climate,
Andrew Haydon explores the response to the political events, the
rise of verbatim theatre, the increasing experimentation and the
effect of both the Boyden Report and changes in the Arts Council's
priorities. Five scholars provide detailed examinations of the
playwrights' work during the decade, combining an analysis of their
plays with a study of other material such as early play drafts and
the critical receptions of the time. Interviews with each
playwright further illuminate this stimulating final volume in the
Decades of Modern British Playwriting series.
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's "Decades
of Modern British Playwriting" series provides a comprehensive
survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the
1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical
analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights
from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an
extensive commentary on the period .Edited by Dan Rebellato,
"Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009" provides an authoritative
and stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the decade, together
with a detailed study of the work of David Greig (Nadine
Holdsworth), Simon Stephens (Jacqueline Bolton), Tim Crouch (Dan
Rebellato), Roy Williams (Michael Pearce) and Debbie Tucker Green
(Lynette Goddard). The volume sets the context by providing a
chronological survey of the decade, one marked by the War on
Terror, the excesses of economic globalization and the digital
revolution. In surveying the theatrical activity and climate,
Andrew Haydon explores the response to the political events, the
rise of verbatim theatre, the increasing experimentation and the
effect of both the Boyden Report and changes in the Arts Council's
priorities. Five scholars provide detailed examinations of the
playwrights' work during the decade, combining an analysis of their
plays with a study of other material such as early play drafts and
the critical receptions of the time. Interviews with each
playwright further illuminate this stimulating final volume in the
"Decades of Modern British Playwriting" series.
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov died one hundred years ago, but
writer Dan Rebellato has woken him up for his new play. Having been
in a coma, the master of Naturalism is shoved slap bang into our
terrible world of iPods, lap dancing clubs, gangsters, fashionistas
and MTV cribs. It makes total sense that Rebellato has chosen
Chekhov to make us reflect on what we have become - he was a sharp
observer of his own society. So the premise of this play is What
would Chekhov think of us?, and the answer is a wholly desperate
one - the hell of the title is the contemporary world.
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Beachy Head (Paperback)
Analogue, Emma Jowett, Dan Rebellato, Lewis Hetherington
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R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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By mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality, this play
is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man's decision.
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Citizenship (Paperback)
Mark Ravenhill; Introduction by Dan Rebellato
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R329
R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
Save R58 (18%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up,
following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual
identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by
a man or by a woman, and he feels he should choose pretty quickly.
His friends' homophobic teasing and interrogations about what he
did with his friend Amy the other night leave Tom no space to make
up his mind, and he's got no one to ask for advice, except maybe
people on the internet. Citizenship captures adolescent confusion
with a witty and sensitive charm, crackling with humorous and
authentic dialogue. Originally developed as part of the National
Theatre Connections Programme, it is an ideal play for young
performers.
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in
the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the
historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not
only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a
critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands
understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as
funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to
legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through
changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing),
theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities
(audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's
relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood).
Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading,
it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory,
queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to
demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British
theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Suspect Culture was Scotland's leading experimental theatre company
between 1993 and 2009. Based in Glasgow, it was formed of a core
group of associate artists who collaborated in making
groundbreaking, high quality new work which gained an international
reputation. Over the course of its 16-year history the company
worked with some of the most respected artists and organizations in
the UK and internationally, and made a significant contribution to
the British theatre scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. Described
by the Scotsman on Sunday as 'Scottish theatre's major creative
powerhouse' and by The Times as 'the most adventurous, most
in-tune-with-the-times theatre company in Britain', Suspect Culture
have had a quietly decisive impact on British theatre. This book
surveys the company's history and ideas and includes an overview of
the Company by David Greig; co-founder, writer, dramaturg and
sometime actor with Suspect Culture and the perspective of the
Company from Brazilian director and writer Mauricio Paroni de
Castro, one of Suspect Culture's many international artistic
associates. Also included here are the previously unpublished
playtexts of three of its most celebrated shows, Timeless,
Mainstream and Lament (all created by the company with text by
David Greig).
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important
playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition "Shopping
and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings
...a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
"Plunges you into the world of disposability, disconnection and
dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced
to transactions ...strong stuff" Paul Taylor, Independent
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and
wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out
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