Pioneering Theatre-in-the-Round - The Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, 1962-1986

About the author

Rachel Walker is an independent theatre historian, currently working at the Victoria Theatre Archive in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, as an archivist and exhibition curator. She has written various articles relating to the history of the Victoria Theatre, such as ‘“Gesticulating Peanuts”: an introduction of theatre-in-the-round to British theatre in the 1950s’, and ‘“One of the few theatres in England who really care about dramatists”: New Writing at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent in the 1960s’.BRUCE MCCONACHIE is Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.Claire Cochrane is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, UK. She has published widely on regional British theatre with a particular focus on Black British and British Asian theatre. Her publications include Twentieth Century British Theatre Industry Art and Empire (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Walker
• Assisted by: Cochrane Claire (Editor of the series), McConachie Bruce (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.02.2026
• EAN: 9781350447967
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44796-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Illustrations: 15 bw illus
• Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social & cultural history, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Staffordshire, Theatre Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Stoke-on-Trent and The Potteries