Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres
A Study Of Four Touring British Community Theatres
- Editore:
ROUTLEDGE
- Collana:
- Routledge Harwood Contemporary
- EAN:
9780415270281
- ISBN:
0415270286
- Pagine:
- 184
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres
Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical contribution to wider post-war developments in British theatre. Peter Billingham offers the reader a unique insight into four companies which, motivated by enthusiasm, principles and creative innovation, sought to take the theatre of conscience to theatre-less communities in wartime Britain and during the following decade. Contemporaries of - amongst others - Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the Pilgrim Players, the Adelphi Players, the Compass Players and the Century Theatre represent a significant but rather overlooked phase in the development of twentieth-century British theatre.
