Freedom's pioneer : John McGrath's work in theatre, film and television /: John McGrath's work in theatre, film and television. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Bradby and Susanna Capon ; foreword by Richard Eyre.
• Editors: Bradby, David; Capon, Susanna
• Contents: ; List of Illustrations; ; Notes on Contributors; ; Acknowledgements; ; Foreword by Richard Eyre; ; Introduction by David Bradby and Susanna Capon ; ; Part One: Culture and the Socialist Vision ; ; 1. Theatre, Theory and Politics: The Contribution of John McGrath, Maria DiCenzo; ; Part Two: Early Work ; ; 2. Get Out and Get On: Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun, Peter Thomson; ; 3. A Life Outside: John McGrath and the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Ros Merkin; ; 4. 'Serjeant Musgrave Dances to a Different Tune': John McGrath's Adaptation of John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, John Bull; ; 5. Finding the Right Places, Finding the Right Audiences: Topicality and Entertainment in the Work of England, Nadine Holdsworth; ; Part Three: John McGrath and Scotland ; ; 6. Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland, Randall Stevenson; ; 7. Celtic Centres, the Fringes and John McGrath, Ian Brown; ; 8. Bursting through the hoop and dancing on the edge of the seediness': Five Scottish Playwrights Talk about John McGrath, Ian Brown; ; Part Four: Case Studies ; ; 9. The Television Adaptation of The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, Robin Nelson; ; 10. A Practical Realism: McGrath, Brecht, Lukacs and Blood Red Roses, Stephen Lacey; ; 11. A Good Night In: The Long Roads, Robert Dawson-Scott; ; 12. Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer, Olga Taxidou; ; Part Five: Working with John ; ; 13. Working with John-Interviews by Susanna Capon; ; Pamela Howard; ; Bill Paterson; ; Troy Kennedy Martin; ; Jack Gold; ; John Bett; ; Jenny Tiramani; ; Elizabeth MacLennan; ; Works by John McGrath; ; Notes; ; Index ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822.914; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General; Literary studies: from c 1900; Films, cinema; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; THEATRE STUDIES; Television; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899130
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