{"product_id":"scenes-from-the-revolution-9780745338514","title":"Scenes from the Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exploration of radical political theatre in Britain from 1968 to present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is an indispensable archive of resistant performance practice, combining memoir, dramatic and critical writing. Wiltshire, Cowan, and their collaborators confront Project Austerity's culture of contempt and despair by recovering and asserting British theatre's history of critical refusal' -- Victor Merriman, author of ' 'Because We are Poor': Irish Theatre in the 1990s'\u003cbr\u003e'Believe that 1960s theatre making is dead duck pass? Reader, best start re-thinking. Editor\/authors Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan forge an original and powerfully mind-bending take across 50 years of radicalised performing. Essential territory for driving future performance toward politicised hope' -- Baz Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003e'Recommended' -- CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Very Brief History of Political Theatre in the\u003cbr\u003e  Twentieth Century up to 1968 - Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan\u003cbr\u003e  Prologue by Lyn Gardner \u003cbr\u003e  Scene 1: Agitprop and Political Theatre \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Interview with Rod Dixon (Red Ladder) and Kathleen McCreery (Red Ladder and Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre) - Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Apartheid: The British Connection (Extract), Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre - Kathleen McCreery\u003cbr\u003e  Contemporary Protest Theatre in South Africa - David Peimer\u003cbr\u003e  The Lost Art of Agitprop and the Return of Socialist Praxis - Rebecca Hillman\u003cbr\u003e  Scene 2: Working-Class Theatre \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Blood Red Roses at the Liverpool Everyman - Bob Eaton\u003cbr\u003e  Ways of Seeing: Class, Gender and the Universal, from Blood Red Roses to The Sum - Lizzie Nunnery\u003cbr\u003e  Plugging into History: Time Travel with John McGrath and 7: 84 - Lindsay Rodden\u003cbr\u003e  Scene 3: Theatre in Education \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - Anthony Jackson\u003cbr\u003e  Farewell to Erin (Extract), Belgrade TIE Company \u003cbr\u003e  Interview with Tony Hughes (M6 Theatre Company) and Justine Themen (Belgrade TIE Company) - Billy Cowan\u003cbr\u003e  Everyone's Got a Story to Tell ... and Their Own Way of Telling It - Julia Samuels (20 Stories High)\u003cbr\u003e  Scene 4: Women's Theatre \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Interview with Sue Parrish (Sphinx) and Mica Nava (Women's Theatre Group) - Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Work To Role (Extract), Women's Theatre Group \u003cbr\u003e  The Work of Open Clasp and Why Women-centred Theatre is Still Relevant Today - Catrina McHugh (MBE) and Jill Heslop\u003cbr\u003e  Forty Years of Women-centred Theatre-Making - Anna Hermann with Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  A Conversation on Sexual Assault in Theatre - Mighty Heart and Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Scene 5: Queer Theatre \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - Billy Cowan\u003cbr\u003e  Men (Extract), Don Milligan and Nol Greig \u003cbr\u003e  Interview with Julie Parker (Drill Hall, 1981-2011) - Billy Cowan\u003cbr\u003e  Interview with Ruth McCarthy (Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast) - Billy Cowan\u003cbr\u003e  We Who are Here Together: (Re-)making Queer Theatre - Chris Goode\u003cbr\u003e  Scene 6: Theatre and Race \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction - May Sumbwanyambe\u003cbr\u003e  A Tainted Dawn (Extract) - Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith \u003cbr\u003e  The Personal is Always Political - Sudha Bhuchar\u003cbr\u003e  Pokfulam Road Productions: A Political Theatre Company? - Jingan Young\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: Where Next for Political Theatre? - Billy Cowan and Kim Wiltshire\u003cbr\u003e  Further Reading \u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404316189015,"sku":"9780745338514","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745338514.jpg?v=1730486077","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scenes-from-the-revolution-9780745338514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}