Tales of the Tricycle Theatre

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre
Author: Terry Stoller
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781472536297

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Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws extensively on archival research and interviews with actors, playwrights, directors, designers and board members to document and celebrate the work of one of London's most artistically exciting and politically engaged theatres. Terry Stoller presents the Tricycle's story, giving you a front-row view of the theatre's productions, including: - the work of generations of black British writers, from Mustapha Matura and Alfred Fagon to Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje - Irish plays ranging from Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island to Brendan Behan's The Hostage - its critically lauded political play cycles The Bomb – A Partial History and The Great Game: Afghanistan, the latter performed at the Pentagon in 2011 “[The Tricycle Theatre] has been both defiantly local and proudly international, it has held a mirror up to British society, and, above all, it has proved that political engagement is not incompatible with the highest artistic standards. It has helped make my life as a critic worthwhile . . .” Michael Billington, Foreword

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre
Author: Terry Stoller
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013
Genre: Theaters
ISBN: 1408184354

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'Tales of the Tricycle Theatre' provides an inside look at the 40 year history of the North London theatre which has achieved reknown with its staging of Black and Irish plays and documentary theatre.

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre

Tales of the Tricycle Theatre
Author: Terry Stoller
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781408183809

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"An inside look at London's Tricycle Theatre which with its series of verbatim plays has made a significant contribution to contemporary political theatre"--

Contemporary Black British Playwrights

Contemporary Black British Playwrights
Author: L. Goddard
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781137493101

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This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.

English Theatre and Social Abjection

English Theatre and Social Abjection
Author: Nadine Holdsworth
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781137597779

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Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature
Author: Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781119653066

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THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre
Author: Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780191016349

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.

Shattering Hamlet s Mirror

Shattering Hamlet s Mirror
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780472119851

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Exploring the historical antecedents and mimetic dimensions of "Theater of the Real"