{"product_id":"british-theatre-companies-1980-1994-joint-stock-gay-sweatshop-complicite-forced-entertainment-womens-theatre-group-talawa-paperback","title":"British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994: Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGraham Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Bull\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGraham Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the major companies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume Two, 1980-1994, covers the period when cuts under Margaret Thatcher's Tory government changed the landscape for British theatre. Yet it also saw an expansion of companies that made feminism and gender central to their work, and the establishment of new black and Asian companies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading academics provide case studies of six of the most important companies, including: \u003cbr\u003e* Monstrous Regiment, by Kate Dorney (The Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum)\u003cbr\u003e*Forced Entertainment, by Sarah Gorman (University of Roehampton, London, UK)\u003cbr\u003e* Gay Sweatshop, by Sara Freeman (University of Puget Sound, USA)\u003cbr\u003e* Joint Stock, by Jaqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln, UK)\u003cbr\u003e* Theatre de Complicite, by Michael Fry\u003cbr\u003e* Talawa, by Kene Igweonu (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Saunders is Reader in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading. He has written extensively on contemporary British theatre, including three volumes on the work of Sarah Kane, is the author of \u003ci\u003ePatrick Marber's Closer\u003c\/i\u003e (Continuum\/Bloomsbury, 2008) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCool Britannia: Political Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45846998024389,"sku":"9781408175484","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/gmoSRGdsUG9781408175484.webp?v=1771409227","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/british-theatre-companies-1980-1994-joint-stock-gay-sweatshop-complicite-forced-entertainment-womens-theatre-group-talawa-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}