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Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies / Randall Stevenson, Gavin Wallace.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748607815
  • 9781474472869
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and Owls: Charting Scottish Theatre -- Part I STAGES AND COMPANIES -- One A Scottish National Theatre? -- Two Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre -- Three From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish Theatres Old and New -- Four Glasgow and its Citizens -- Five The People's Story: 7:84 Scotland -- Part II PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS -- Six Language and Identity on the Stage -- Seven. Plugged into History: the Sense of the Past in Scottish Theatre -- Eight. In the Jungle of the Cities -- Nine. Fantasists and Philosophers -- Ten. The New Wave -- Eleven. Loose Canons: Identifying a Women's Tradition in Playwriting -- Part III POLITICS AND PRACTICES -- Twelve. From Cheviots to Silver Darlings -- Thirteen. Epic Theatre in Scotland -- Fourteen. Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition -- Fifteen. Talking in Tongues: Scottish Translations 1970-1995 -- Sixteen. Directing for the Scottish Stage -- Seventeen. Economics, Culture and Playwriting -- The Scottish Theatre since 1970: A Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Written accessibly for the theatre-going general public, this is an ideal guide to the new Scottish theatre: its people, its plays, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Directors, playwrights, journalists and distinguished theatre critics offer personal, challenging and wide-ranging insights into the last 25 years of Scottish theatre.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and Owls: Charting Scottish Theatre -- Part I STAGES AND COMPANIES -- One A Scottish National Theatre? -- Two Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre -- Three From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish Theatres Old and New -- Four Glasgow and its Citizens -- Five The People's Story: 7:84 Scotland -- Part II PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS -- Six Language and Identity on the Stage -- Seven. Plugged into History: the Sense of the Past in Scottish Theatre -- Eight. In the Jungle of the Cities -- Nine. Fantasists and Philosophers -- Ten. The New Wave -- Eleven. Loose Canons: Identifying a Women's Tradition in Playwriting -- Part III POLITICS AND PRACTICES -- Twelve. From Cheviots to Silver Darlings -- Thirteen. Epic Theatre in Scotland -- Fourteen. Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition -- Fifteen. Talking in Tongues: Scottish Translations 1970-1995 -- Sixteen. Directing for the Scottish Stage -- Seventeen. Economics, Culture and Playwriting -- The Scottish Theatre since 1970: A Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index

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Written accessibly for the theatre-going general public, this is an ideal guide to the new Scottish theatre: its people, its plays, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Directors, playwrights, journalists and distinguished theatre critics offer personal, challenging and wide-ranging insights into the last 25 years of Scottish theatre.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)