Contemporary Scottish Plays
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Author | : Alistair Beaton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 147257446X |
To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?' Scotland is entering a crucial period in its history, where its identity is being debated daily, from everyday conversation to the national and international press. At the same time, its theatre is resurgent, with key Scottish playwrights, theatres and theatre companies expanding their performance vocabularies while coming to prominence in national and international contexts. Caledonia is a tale of hubris and delusion, portraying a crucial slice of Scotland's history and its foray into imperial colonialism told with dark humour and creative flair, by award-winning playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton. Bullet Catch, by Rob Drummond, is a unique theatrical experience exploring the world of magic, featuring mind-reading, levitation, and the most notorious finale in show business. Morna Pearson's The Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, deceptively simple, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship. Rantin', by Kieran Hurley draws on storytelling, live music and an unapologetically haphazard take on Scottish folk tradition, in an attempt to stitch together fragmented stories to reveal a botched patchwork of a nation. First performed at the Royal Court in 2013, Narrative by Anthony Neilson is a theatrical exploration of the the boundaries and possibilities of storytelling. Featuring plays from Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Kieran Hurley and Anthony Neilson, this collection is edited by Dr. Trish Reid, a leading critical voice on Scottish theatre.
Author | : Trish Reid |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031611918 |
Author | : Anne Gifford |
Publisher | : Hodder Gibson |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Lochhead, Liz, 1947- . Medea |
ISBN | : 9780340803219 |
One of the new features of the new Higher English arrangements is the requirement to study at least one Scottish text. There is a lack of suitable material from Scottish writers, and in particular a lack of drama. This anthology inlcudes three plays by Scottish dramatists, with commentary and activities written by the authors to provide all the teaching resources necessary. Each play should work with different levels of student, so that the resource can be used across the Higher Still programme.
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Publisher | : Hodder Education |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Children's plays |
ISBN | : 9780340946282 |
Scottish Plays for Schools is a collection of six plays by contemporary Scottish writers intended for use in Scottish secondary schools. The individual plays are appropriate for a wide age-range of students, and can be performed within the context of English or Drama classrooms ranging from S1 to S6, although many will be particularly appropriate for use with Intermediate or Standard Grade classes. All plays have supplementary follow-up activities for the classroom, provided by Roy McGregor, drama teacher and author of Dramascripts 11-14.
Author | : Ian Brown |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401209944 |
Challenging the dominant view of a broken and discontinuous dramatic culture in Scotland, this book outlines the variety and richness of the nation ́s performance traditions and multilingual theatre history. Brown illuminates enduring strands of hybridity and diversity which use theatre and theatricality as a means of challenging establishment views, and of exploring social, political, and religious change. He describes the ways in which politically and religiously divisive moments in Scottish history, such as the Reformation and political Union, fostered alternative dramatic modes and means of expression. This major revisionist history also analyses the changing relationships between drama, culture, and political change in Scotland in the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the work of an extensive range of modern and contemporary Scottish playwrights and drama practitioners. Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor of Drama at Kingston University, London. Until recently Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, he was General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Scottish Theatre (EUP, 2007) and editor of From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (EUP, 2010) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (EUP, 2011). He has published widely on theatre, cultural policy and literature and language.
Author | : Berthold Schoene |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007-04-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748630287 |
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,
Author | : Philip Howard |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781854593832 |
An engaging new collection of recent plays from Scotland.
Author | : Valentina Poggi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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Author | : Trish Reid |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-07-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1472570316 |
Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor, Stitching, Realism, Unreachable and his 2004 masterpiece The Wonderful World of Dissocia, arguably one of the finest Scottish plays of the new millennium. This volume provides the first full-length study of Neilson's plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and additional contributions from important scholars and commentators in the field. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to develop a better understanding of one of British theatre's most original artists.
Author | : Elaine Aston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521595339 |
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.