British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014 - Mind Gap, Kneehigh Theatre, Suspect Culture, Stan s Cafe, Blast

This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to 2014. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the most important companies. Volume Three, 1995-2014, charts the expansion of the sector in the era of Lottery funding and traces the resistant influences of earlier movements in the emergence of new companies and an independent theatre ecology that seeks to reconfigure the mainstream. Leading academics provide case studies of six of the most important companies, including:* Mind the Gap, by Dave Calvert (University of Huddersfield, UK)* Blast Theory, by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (University of Hull, UK)* Suspect Culture, by Clare Wallace (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)* Punchdrunk, by Josephine Machon (Middlesex University, UK)* Kneehigh, by Duska Radosavljevic (University of Kent, UK)* Stans Cafe, by Marissia Fragkou (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)>

About the author

Graham Saunders is a professor of Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written extensively on contemporary British theatre, including three volumes on the work of Sarah Kane, is the author of Patrick Marber's Closer (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2008) and co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008).Liz Tomlin is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Product details

• Authors: John Bull, Graham Saunders, Liz Tomlin, Liz (Senior Lecturer Tomlin, Tomlin Liz
• Assisted by: John Bull (Editor), Graham Saunders (Editor), John Bull (Editor of the series), Graham Saunders (Editor of the series), SAUNDERS GRAHAM (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781408177273
• ISBN: 978-1-4081-7727-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream; British Theatre Companies: Fro; British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, 21st Century, Theatre Studies, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999