British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979 - CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group,

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 the present. 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 major companies drawing on the Arts Council Archives to trace the impact of funding on the work produced. , covers the period often accepted as the ''golden age'' of British Fringe companies, looking at the birth of companies concerned with touring their work to an ever-expanding circuit of ''alternative'' performance venues. Leading academics provide case studies of six of the most important companies, including:* CAST, by Bill McDonnell (University of Sheffield, UK)* The People Show, by Grant Tyler Peterson (Brunel University London, UK)* Portable Theatre, by Chris Megson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)* Pip Simmons Theatre Group, by Kate Dorney (The Victoria and Albert Museum, UK)* Welfare State International, by Gillian Whitely (Loughborough University, UK)* 7:84 Theatre Companies, by David Pattie (University of Chester, 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).

Product details

• Authors: Dr. John Bull, John Bull, John (Brunel University Bull, John (University of Lincoln Bull, Prof. John Bull, Prof. John (Department of Film Bull, Prof. John (University of Lincoln Bull
• 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: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2016
• EAN: 9781408175446
• ISBN: 978-1-4081-7544-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream; British Theatre Companies: Fro; British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980