Reverberations Across Small-Scale British Theatre : Politics, Aesthetics and Forms.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the Scene: Introducing Reverberations -- Chapter 1: Foco Novo: The Icarus of British Small-Scale Touring Theatre -- Chapter 2: Insider Knowledge: The Evolution of Belfast's Tinderbox Theatre Company -- Chapter 3: Volcano: A Post-Punk Physical Theatre -- Chapter 4: Tiata Fahodzi: Second-Generation Africans in British Theatre -- Chapter 5: Keeping It Together: Talawa Theatre Company, Britishness, Aesthetics of Scale and Mainstreaming the Black-British Experience -- Chapter 6: Agitation and Entertainment: Rod Dixon and Red Ladder Theatre Company -- Chapter 7: Intercultural to Cross-Cultural Theatre: Tara Arts and the Development of British Asian Theatre -- Chapter 8: Kind Acts: Lone Twin Theatre -- Chapter 9: Political Theatre 'without Finger-Wagging': On the Paper Birds and Integrative Aesthetics -- Chapter 10: 'Angels and Modern Myth': Grid Iron and the New Scottish Theatre -- Chapter 11: Acts of Poiesis: salamanda tandem -- Coda -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers and performers emerged. 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.

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