Divided City

Divided City
Author: Theresa Breslin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408181576

Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a gripping tale about two boys and how they must find their own way forward in a world divided by difference. This educational edition has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Published in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series the book: - meets the curriculum requirements for English at KS3, GCSE and Scottish CfE. - features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis - places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities - will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 - will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Theatre and Scotland

Theatre and Scotland
Author: Trish Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113729664X

In this cutting-edge text, Trish Reid offers a concise overview of the shifting roles of theatre and theatricality in Scottish culture. She asks important questions about the relationship between Scottish theatre, history and identity, and celebrates the recent emergence of a generation of internationally successful Scottish playwrights.

Black Watch

Black Watch
Author: Gregory Burke
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0571275117

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror and what it means to make the journey home again. This book contains Gregory Burke's award-winning text, with production notes by the director John Tiffany and colour photographs that capture the powerful and inventive use of movement in this visceral, complex and urgent piece of theatre. The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Black Watch opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006 where it won a Herald Angel, a Scotsman Fringe First, a Best Theatre Writing Award from The List, a Stage Award for Best Ensemble, the Critics' Circle Award and the South Bank Show Award for Theatre. In 2007 it began a world tour in Scotland. "Completely brilliant." Daily Telegraph "Black Watch is a glorious piece of theatre, raw, truthful, uncomfortable, political, funny, moving, graceful and dynamic." Scotland on Sunday "A brilliantly realised piece." Evening Standard "A magnificent piece of social and political theatre. A high point not just of the festival but of the theatrical year" Observer

Scottish Theatre

Scottish Theatre
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789042037434

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.

Theatre and Scotland

Theatre and Scotland
Author: Trish Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350316172

In this cutting-edge text, Trish Reid offers a concise overview of the shifting roles of theatre and theatricality in Scottish culture. She asks important questions about the relationship between Scottish theatre, history and identity, and celebrates the recent emergence of a generation of internationally successful Scottish playwrights.

Theatre in Scotland

Theatre in Scotland
Author: Joyce McMillan
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781848422926

A fascinating personal overview of Scotland and its culture from one of the country's most acclaimed arts and political writers.

A History of Scottish Theatre

A History of Scottish Theatre
Author: Adrienne Scullion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

This is the first ever comprehensive, illustrated historical survey of Scottish theatre considered in its broadest sense to include the companies, buildings, theatre-going trends, and key plays, from the minstrels of the 15th & 16th centuries to today.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748646345

Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.