Scenes from the Revolution -

Scenes from the Revolution

Making Political Theatre 1968-2018

Kim Wiltshire, Billy Cowan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2018
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3851-4 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
An exploration of radical political theatre in Britain from 1968 to present day.
Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain.



Scenes from the Revolution is a celebration of fifty years of political theatre in Britain. Including 'lost' scripts from companies including Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre, The Women's Theatre Group and The General Will, with incisive commentary from contemporary political theatre makers, the book asks the essential questions: What can be learnt from our rich history of political theatre? And how might contemporary practitioners apply these approaches to our current politically troubled world?



Beginning with a short history of pre-1968 political theatre - covering Brecht, Joan Littlewood and Ewan McColl - the editors move on to explore agit-prop, working-class theatre, theatre in education, theatre and race, women’s theatre and LGBTQ theatre. Featuring many of the leading voices in the field, then and now, Scenes from the Revolution is a must-read for anyone interested in politics in the arts.

Kim Wiltshire is a playwright and academic who specialises in issue based theatre, especially issues around young people, gender and sexuality, through her company Laid Bare Theatre, with plays such as Project XXX and The Value of Nothing. She is Programme Leader for the Creative Writing course at Edge Hill University. She edited the book Scenes from the Revolution (Pluto, 2018). Billy Cowan is an award-winning playwright and artistic director of Truant Company. His first play Smilin' Through, produced by Birmingham Rep was nominated for Best New Play 2005 by Manchester Evening News and his play Caretakers won the Stage Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016. He is senior lecturer for creative writing at Edge Hill University. He edited the book Scenes from the Revolution (Pluto, 2018).

Introduction: A Very Brief History of Political Theatre in the


Twentieth Century up to 1968 - Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan


Prologue by Lyn Gardner


Scene 1: Agitprop and Political Theatre


Introduction - Kim Wiltshire


Interview with Rod Dixon (Red Ladder) and Kathleen McCreery (Red Ladder and Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre) - Kim Wiltshire


Apartheid: The British Connection (Extract), Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre - Kathleen McCreery


Contemporary Protest Theatre in South Africa - David Peimer


The Lost Art of Agitprop and the Return of Socialist Praxis - Rebecca Hillman


Scene 2: Working-Class Theatre


Introduction - Kim Wiltshire


Blood Red Roses at the Liverpool Everyman - Bob Eaton


Ways of Seeing: Class, Gender and the Universal, from Blood Red Roses to The Sum - Lizzie Nunnery


Plugging into History: Time Travel with John McGrath and 7: 84 - Lindsay Rodden


Scene 3: Theatre in Education


Introduction - Anthony Jackson


Farewell to Erin (Extract), Belgrade TIE Company


Interview with Tony Hughes (M6 Theatre Company) and Justine Themen (Belgrade TIE Company) - Billy Cowan


Everyone's Got a Story to Tell ... and Their Own Way of Telling It - Julia Samuels (20 Stories High)


Scene 4: Women's Theatre


Introduction - Kim Wiltshire


Interview with Sue Parrish (Sphinx) and Mica Nava (Women's Theatre Group) - Kim Wiltshire


Work To Role (Extract), Women's Theatre Group


The Work of Open Clasp and Why Women-centred Theatre is Still Relevant Today - Catrina McHugh (MBE) and Jill Heslop


Forty Years of Women-centred Theatre-Making - Anna Hermann with Kim Wiltshire


A Conversation on Sexual Assault in Theatre - Mighty Heart and Kim Wiltshire


Scene 5: Queer Theatre


Introduction - Billy Cowan


Men (Extract), Don Milligan and Nol Greig


Interview with Julie Parker (Drill Hall, 1981-2011) - Billy Cowan


Interview with Ruth McCarthy (Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast) - Billy Cowan


We Who are Here Together: (Re-)making Queer Theatre - Chris Goode


Scene 6: Theatre and Race


Introduction - May Sumbwanyambe


A Tainted Dawn (Extract) - Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith


The Personal is Always Political - Sudha Bhuchar


Pokfulam Road Productions: A Political Theatre Company? - Jingan Young


Epilogue: Where Next for Political Theatre? - Billy Cowan and Kim Wiltshire


Further Reading


Notes on Contributors


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 312 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-7453-3851-8 / 0745338518
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-3851-4 / 9780745338514
Zustand Neuware
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