The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

Claire Cochrane is Professor Emeritus of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, UK. Lynette Goddard is Professor of Black Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Catherine Hindson is Professor of Theatre History at the University of Bristol, UK. Trish Reid is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Reading, UK

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

Index