Joan Littlewood''s Theatre

Informationen zum Autor Nadine Holdsworth is an Associate Professor and Head of Department in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on British political theatre since the 1930s and theatre's relationship to the nation and globalization. She is the author of Theatre and Nation (2010), Joan Littlewood (2006) and co-editor, with Mary Luckhurst, of A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (2007). Klappentext An original investigation into Joan Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism! drawing upon extensive primary archival material. Zusammenfassung Joan Littlewood was one of the most visionary and influential theatre directors of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research and performance histories! and paying close attention to wider political and cultural forces! this study presents an examination of Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A peculiar history: life, love and theatre; 2. The war game: politics, ethics and representation; 3. Controversial classics: resisting cultural authority; 4. Poetic realism: representing working-class communities; 5. Popular theatrical communities: outsiders, misfits and miscreants; 6. Cultural democracy and spatial encounters: the Fun Palace project; 7. Spaces to play/playing with spaces: young people, play and citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Holdsworth, Nadine (University of Warwick) Holdsworth, Holdsworth Nadine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521119603
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11960-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Individual actors and performers