Author : Sue Glover
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1997-05-12
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Bondagers, a story of women workers on the great Borders farms in the last century, is a play about land and the misuse of land. The Straw Chair opened the 25th anniversary season of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
Author : Sue Glover
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9780871298331
Author : Gioia Angeletti
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2019-01-18T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8869772055
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure. The three macro-thematic areas of the book – the rewriting of the Shakespearean canon; the representation of female communities and minorities; and the conflicts between the self and society – find significant and paradigmatic expression in their dramas. All seven writers examined in this book have explored new theatrical methods, introduced aesthetic innovations and opened new perspectives to engage with the complexities of national, community and individual identities. This study will surely contribute to wider recognition of their achievement, so that their work can never again be described as “uncharted territory”.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137473363
This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the work of many key figures from the last century of Scottish theatre, including Robert McLellan and his contemporaries, and also Hector MacMillan, Stewart Conn, John McGrath, Donald Campbell, Bill Bryden, Sue Glover, Liz Lochhead, Jo Clifford, Peter Arnott, David Greig, Rona Munro and others often neglected or misunderstood. Setting these writers’ achievements in the context of their Scottish and European predecessors, Ian Brown offers fresh insights into key aspects of Scottish theatre. As such, this represents the first study to offer an overarching view of historical representation on Scottish stages, exploring the nature of ‘history’ and ‘myth’ and relating these afresh to how dramatists use – and subvert – them. Engaging and accessible, this innovative book will attract scholars and students interested in history, ideology, mythology, theatre politics and explorations of national and gender identity.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521595339
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1847674747
Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at every turn for the vigour of its language and its direct confrontation with telling issues. The plays in this anthology offer a unique chance to grasp the different topics and also the recurrent themes of Scottish drama in the twentieth century. Gathered together in a single omnibus volume, there is the poetic eeriness of Barrie and the political commitment of Joe Corrie and Sue Glover; there is the Brechtian debate of Bridie and the verbal brilliance of John Byrne and Liz Lochhead; there is working-class experience and feminist insight; broad Scots and existential anxiety; street realism and a meeting with the devil; social injustice and raucous humour; historical comedy and tragic loss. Here is both the breadth and the continuity of the modern Scottish tradition in a single volume.
Author : Lindsay Blair
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2024-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1040115101
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies. The volume invites readers from a range of disciplines – music, art, literature, history, cultural memory studies, anthropology or media studies – to consider how an intermedial aesthetics of the edge can enable these distinctive cultures to thrive. The languages of both cultures are presently endangered and the essays seek to connect notions of language with a culture which can align its traditions with the concerns of the present day. The collection proceeds from a conceptual analysis of poetry film, peripheral vision and the concerns of peripheral communities to an examination of inventive practices in the film-poem, experimental video, film portrait, word-image, digitised music, sound-image and genre-contestant narratives. The collection also includes contributions from creative practitioners who utilize a range of hybrid forms to revitalize the traditional vernacular cultures of Scotland and Brittany. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, film studies, media studies, music, cultural theory, and philosophy.
Author : Randall Stevenson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1474472869
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.
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521002844
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118492137
Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.
