Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre
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- ISBN 9781783202973
- Weight: 621g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Intellect
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part of the establishment. Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre at long last puts these small-scale British theatre companies and personalities in the scholarly spotlight. By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners, contributors articulate how it is reflected in the goals, manifestos and aesthetics of these companies.
Dr. Victor I. Ukaegbu is a senior lecturer and course leader for Drama at The University of Northampton. He has written on African and intercultural theatres, postcolonial performances, gender, black British theatre, applied theatre, including a book; The Use of Masks in Igbo Theatre in Nigeria: the Aesthetic Flexibility of Performance Traditions. He is Associate Editor of African Performance Review and a member of the Editorial Board of World Scenography(Africa/Middle East).
Patrick Duggan's research interests lie in critical approaches to contemporary performance and the relationship between performance and the wider socio-cultural and political contexts in which it is made. He has recently published a monograph investigating the relationship between contemporary performance and trauma and his continuing research examines the relationship between cultural products and practices and their wider social contexts. Engaging with poststructuralist and political philosophy, Duggan's research is interdisciplinary in nature and particularly focused on questions of spectatorship, witnessing, trauma and ethics and is concerned to explore the socio-political efficacy of theatre, performance and other cultural practices.
