Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson and Trish Reid

1 Setting the Scene: Ambivalent Encounters/Visibilities

David Linton

PART I

Nation/s, Power and Identity

2 The Theatre and the State, 1900-1950

Trevor R. Griffiths

3 Irish National Drama and the British Theatre, 1897-1951

Patrick Lonergan

4 Theatre, Education and Recreation

Jane Milling

5 "National" Theatres

Anselm Heinrich

6 Collective Laughter and Political Empowerment in the Comedies of the Suffrage Era

Eleanor Stewart

PART II

Fixity and Mobility

7 Theatre Buildings, 1900-1950

Alistair Fair

8 Miles from London: Edinburgh and Bristol's West End Cultures

Catherine Hindson

9 Popular Places

Nick Havergal

10 Transatlantic Exchanges

Paul Maloney

11 Theatre in World War Two: Taking on the Myths

Ros Merkin

PART III

Bodies in Performance

12 Between Representation and Agency: Black Artists in the UK, 1900-1950

Tiziana Morosetti

13 'A Twitchy and Pugnacious Male Culture': Women and Scottish Theatre, 1900-1950

Claire Cochrane and Ksenija Horvat

14 Ensembles and Companies

Philippa Burt

15 The Performing Body in Music Hall and Variety Theatre: Ambiguities and Blurred Boundaries

Louise Peacock

16 The Influence of the European Avant-Garde

Claire Warden

17 British Actor Training, 1900-1950: The Drama-School Turn

Peter Zazzali

PART IV

The Materiality of Theatre

18 The Labour of Theatre, 1900-1950

Lucie Sutherland

19 Theatrical Publishing, 1900-1950

Andrew Nash

20 Consumer Economies

Matthew Franks

21 Postcards, Letters and Magazines: Fan Culture in the early Twentieth Century

Helen Grime

22 Fashioning Costume on the British Stage, 1900-1950

Susan Marshall

PART V

Communities of Theatre

23 Theatre in 'Other' Spaces: Welsh Drama and Theatre, 1900-1950

Anwen Jones

24 Ulster Kitchen Comedy: 'A Faithful if Unpleasant Picture of the National Fragments'

Roy Connolly

25 Elite Private Theatricals and the 'Professional' Amateur

David Coates

26 Early Twentieth-Century Festival Cultures

Soudabeh Ananisarab

27 The Children's Theatre Movement in Early Twentieth-Century London and Birmingham

Catherine Hindson and Gemma Colclough

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