Theatre in Scotland - A Field of Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Joyce McMillan is theatre critic of The Scotsman , and also writes a political and social commentary column for the paper. She has been a political and arts columnist, theatre critic and broadcaster for more than thirty years, living in Edinburgh and working for various Scottish and London-based newspapers. She also broadcasts regularly, mainly on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4, and has been involved in Scottish and European campaigns for democracy and human rights. Her history of the first twenty-five years of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, was published in 1988, and in 2003, along with other critics, she helped launch the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, now an annual event. Philip Howard is a director and dramaturg. A former Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, he is a director of Pearlfisher, Scotland’s touring new-writing and talent-development company. For Nick Hern Books he is the editor of Scotland Plays and Scottish Shorts , as well as Joyce McMillan's collected reviews, Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams . Klappentext A fascinating personal overview of Scotland and its culture from one of the country's most acclaimed arts and political writers. Zusammenfassung A panoramic history of modern Scottish theatre, reported from the frontline by Scotland's leading drama critic.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Mcmillan, McMillan Joyce
• Assisted by: Philip Howard (Editor)
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781848422926
• ISBN: 978-1-84842-292-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, Reportage & collected journalism, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Literary studies: plays and playwrights