{"product_id":"reverberations-across-small-scale-british-theatre-politics-aesthetics-and-forms-9781783202973","title":"Reverberations across Small-Scale British","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part of the establishment. \u003cem\u003eReverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e at long last puts these small-scale British theatre companies and personalities in the scholarly spotlight. By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners, contributors articulate how it is reflected in the goals, manifestos and aesthetics of these companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This rich, fascinating text will hopefully inspire debate within the academy, and provide valuable insight into a wide range of companies as Britishness reaches a crossroads.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Scottish Journal of Performance, Ben Fletcher-Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'There is no other collection about British theatre companies like this: one that embraces smallness, employs its postcolonial approach so deftly to subjects both racially marked and unmarked and which treats company histories in such nuanced, concrete ways.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sara Freeman, Contemporary Theatre Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This book, then, is a valuable resource for academics and students alike, because it generously throws open methodological and archival questions, provides information about the working practices of a range of innovative companies (linked, perhaps, by their demonstrations of resistance, resilience and creativity) and works to pose critical questions about the theatre ecology of Britain over the past 30 years. '\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rachel Clements, Studies in Theatre and Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSetting the Scene: Introducing Reverberations\u003c\/strong\u003e – Patrick Duggan and Victor Ukaegbu\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: Foco Novo:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Icarus of British Small-Scale Touring Theatre – Graham Saunders\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Insider Knowledge:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Evolution of Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre Company – David Grant\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: Volcano:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Post-Punk Physical Theatre – Gareth Somers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: Tiata Fahodzi:\u003c\/strong\u003e Second-Generation Africans in British Theatre – Ekua Ekumah\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: Keeping It Together:\u003c\/strong\u003e Talawa Theatre Company, Britishness, Aesthetics of Scale and Mainstreaming the Black-British Experience – Kene Igweonu\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6: Agitation and Entertainment:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rod Dixon and Red Ladder Theatre  – Tony Gardner\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7: Intercultural to Cross-Cultural Theatre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tara Arts and the Development of British Asian Theatre – Victor Ukaegbu\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8: Kind Acts:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lone Twin Theatre – Eirini Kartsaki\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9: Political Theatre ‘without Finger-Wagging’:\u003c\/strong\u003e On the Paper Birds and Integrative Aesthetics – Patrick Duggan\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10: ‘Angels and Modern Myth’:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grid Iron and the New Scottish Theatre – Trish Reid\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acts of Poiesis: salamanda tandem – Mick Wallis and Isabel Jones\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoda\u003c\/strong\u003e – Franc Chamberlain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042260812119,"sku":"9781783202973","price":36.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783202973.jpg?v=1750953671","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reverberations-across-small-scale-british-theatre-politics-aesthetics-and-forms-9781783202973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}