Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres

ISBN-13: 9780415270281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 182 str.

Peter Billingham; P. Billingham

Opis

Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical contribution to wider post-war developments in British theatre. Peter Billingham offers the reader a unique insight into four companies which, motivated by enthusiasm, principles and creative innovation, sought to take the theatre of conscience to theatre-less communities in wartime Britain and during the following decade. Contemporaries of - amongst others - Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the Pilgrim Players, the Adelphi Players, the Compass Players and the Century Theatre represent a significant but rather overlooked phase in the development of twentieth-century British theatre.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Pilgrim Players; Chapter 3 The Adelphi Players and Adelphi Guild Theatre; Chapter 4 The Compass Players; Chapter 5 The Century Theatre; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

O autorze

Dr Peter Billingham is Principal Lecturer in Drama at Bath Spa University College, Bath, UK. A researcher and award-winning dramatist, he has worked with Cecil Davies on The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons, also available from Routledge Harwood.