Theatre of Conscience 1939-53 (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres
Redaktion: Billingham, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136465505
• Artikelnr.: 40171744

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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