Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution

ISBN-13: 9780415460651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str.

Colin Chambers

Opis

This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within British culture. It describes what happened to a radical theatrical vision and explores British society's inability to sustain that vision

Recenzje

'[A] politically alert and lucidly written book.' – STP

Spis treści

Part 1 A Short History of Four Decades; Chapter 1 All in a State of Finding; Chapter 2 In the Marketplace of Now; Chapter 3 The Age of Expansion; Chapter 4 Barbican Bound; Chapter 5 Crisis and Modernisation; Part 2 Staying Alive; Chapter 6 Beyond the Bard; Chapter 7 Shots in the Dark; Chapter 8 Public Account; Chapter 9 Company or Corporation?;

O autorze

Colin Chambers is Senior Research Fellow in Theatre at De Montfort University. A former journalist and critic, he was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997. His books include the award-winning Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent(1997) and he is the editor of The Continuum Guide to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002).