A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

About

Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century British theatre and is the author of Joan Littlewood's Theatre (Cambridge University Press 2011) Theatre & Nation (Palgrave 2010) and Joan Littlewood (Routledge 2006). She has also edited John McGraths collected writings on theatre Naked Thoughts That Roam About (Nick Hern 2002) and his Plays for England (Exeter University Press 2005).  Mary Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Drama and co-founder of the prestigious new Department of Theatre Film and Television at the  University of York. She has edited A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama (Blackwell 2006) and is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006) co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays (2002) and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996) On Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999) and On Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002) and Playing for Real (Palgrave 2010). She is a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and in 2012-13 was among 14 leading UK scholars to be awarded an international scholarship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to theatre pedagogy and research.