Freedom's Pioneer (eBook)

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Susanna Capon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway. She was previously a producer and director in the television industry and she is Course Director of the first vocational MA in Producing for Film and Television. 

The late David Bradby was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London. His published books include Beckett: Waiting for Godot , The Theater of Michel Vinaver , Modern French Drama 1940-1990 and, with Annie Sparks, Mise en Scène: French Theatre Now

List of Illustrations


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


Foreword by Richard Eyre


Introduction by David Bradby and Susanna Capon


Part One: Culture and the Socialist Vision


1. Theatre,Theory and Politics: The Contribution of John McGrath, Maria DiCenzo


Part Two: Early Work


2. Get Out and Get On: Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun, Peter Thomson


3. A Life Outside: John McGrath and the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Ros Merkin


4. 'Serjeant Musgrave Dances to a Different Tune': John McGrath's Adaptation of John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, John Bull


5. Finding the Right Places, Finding the Right Audiences: Topicality and Entertainment in the Work of England, Nadine Holdsworth


Part Three: John McGrath and Scotland


6. Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland, Randall Stevenson


7. Celtic Centres, the Fringes and John McGrath, Ian Brown


8. Bursting through the hoop and dancing on the edge of the seediness': Five Scottish Playwrights Talk about John McGrath, Ian Brown


Part Four: Case Studies


9. The Television Adaptation of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Robin Nelson


10. A Practical Realism: McGrath, Brecht, Lukacs and Blood Red Roses, Stephen Lacey


11. A Good Night In: The Long Roads, Robert Dawson-Scott


12. Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer, Olga Taxidou


Part Five: Working with John


13. Working with John-Interviews by Susanna Capon:


Pamela Howard


Bill Paterson


Troy Kennedy Martin


Jack Gold


John Bett


Jenny Tiramani


Elizabeth MacLennan


Works by John McGrath


Notes


Index