Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 A Revolution on Stage /

• Main Author: Brown, Mark (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, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Theater.; Theater-History.; Performing arts.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Theatre History.; Contemporary Theatre.; Performing Arts.

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Preface: Defining our terms
• 2. Introduction
• 3. 'My wife glimpsed a testicle!': the Citizens Theatre since 1969
• 4. Communicado and 'popular experimentalism'
• 5. Interviews with five theatremakers
• 6. The National Theatre of Scotland: mapping onto the landscape
• 7. Conclusion: the future of a renaissance.