Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher "The History We Haven't Had" /

• Main Author: Pennino, Anthony P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Performing arts.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.

This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in gover...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Snowy Night in December
• 2. Competing Histories
• 3. Plays of the First Thatcher Ministry: "To the world's end. To the churchyard grave"
• 4. Plays of the Second Thatcher Ministry: "Demolition needs a drawing, too"
• 5. Plays of the Third Thatcher Ministry: "I shall destroy your power to resist"
• 6. Plays of the Two Major Ministries: "Let them see we are happy"
• 7. Conclusion: May 2, 1997 and Beyond.