With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.

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9780859898935 | Published: 2015

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9780859898928 | Published: 2015

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9780859899871 | Published: 2015

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9780859899734 | Published: 2015

This collection of essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. These essays explore historical performance in ancient Greece and link it to wider reflections on cultural theory.

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9780859898911 | Published: 2014

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9780859899833 | Published: 2015

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9780859899642 | Published: 2015

Drawing on archive material and a series of personal interviews, this exciting new book reverses the neglect of this vital element in the history of contemporary theatre – the vibrant presence of South Asians in theatre in Britain.

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9780859898331 | Published: 2012

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9780859898324 | Published: 2012

British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda in order to influence audiences.

 

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9780859896375 | Published: 1999

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9780859896368 | Published: 1999

This is the first of a four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence archives. It covers the period before 1932, when theatre was seen as a crucial medium with the power to shape society, determining what people believed and how they behaved.

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9780859896382 | Published: 2003

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9780859899031 | Published: 2015

This is the second part of a four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence Archives. It covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before, during and after the Second World War.

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9780859896979 | Published: 2005

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9780859899048 | Published: 2015

This is the third part of Steve Nicholson’s four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. This volume covers the 1950s.

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9780859897501 | Published: 2011

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9780859899055 | Published: 2015

This book is the fourth volume in the expanded definitive survey, covering the period 1960-1968. Steve Nicholson’s four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor.

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9780859898461 | Published: 2015

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9780859899888 | Published: 2015

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9780859899611 | Published: 2015

This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.

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9780859898355 | Published: 2012

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9780859899093 | Published: 2015

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre.  It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory and practice. 15 b&w illustrations.

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9780859893350 | Published: 2018

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9780859899970 | Published: 2016

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9780859892155 | Published: 2018

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9780859892087 | Published: 2018