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Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies

  • Randall Stevenson and Gavin Wallace
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1996

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Written accessibly for the theatre-going general public, this is an ideal guide to the new Scottish theatre: its people, its plays, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Directors, playwrights, journalists and distinguished theatre critics offer personal, challenging and wide-ranging insights into the last 25 years of Scottish theatre.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgements

    vii
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    Introduction: Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and Owls: Charting Scottish Theatre

    1
    Randall Stevenson
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  • Part I STAGES AND COMPANIES
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    One A Scottish National Theatre?

    23
    Roger Savage
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    Two Cradle on the Tree-Top: the Edinburgh Festival and Scottish Theatre

    34
    Owen Dudley Edwards
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    Three From Traverse to Tramway: Scottish Theatres Old and New

    49
    Mark Fisher
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    Four Glasgow and its Citizens

    57
    David Hutchison
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    Five The People's Story: 7:84 Scotland

    65
    Linda Mackenney
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  • Part II PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
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    Six Language and Identity on the Stage

    75
    Lindsay Paterson
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    Seven. Plugged into History: the Sense of the Past in Scottish Theatre

    84
    Ian Brown
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    Eight. In the Jungle of the Cities

    100
    Randall Stevenson
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    Nine. Fantasists and Philosophers

    112
    Sarah C. Rutherford
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    Ten. The New Wave

    125
    Peter Zenzinger
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    Eleven. Loose Canons: Identifying a Women's Tradition in Playwriting

    138
    Audrey Bain
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  • Part III POLITICS AND PRACTICES
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    Twelve. From Cheviots to Silver Darlings

    149
    John McGrath
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    Thirteen. Epic Theatre in Scotland

    164
    Olga Taxidou
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    Fourteen. Scottish Drama and the Popular Tradition

    176
    Femi Folorunso
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    Fifteen. Talking in Tongues: Scottish Translations 1970-1995

    186
    Bill Findlay
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    Sixteen. Directing for the Scottish Stage

    198
    Ian Brown
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    Seventeen. Economics, Culture and Playwriting

    206
    David Hutchison
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    The Scottish Theatre since 1970: A Bibliography

    215
    Alison Lumsden
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    About the Contributors

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    Index

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