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Staging the past in the age of Thatcher = "the history we haven't had" /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Staging the past in the age of Thatcher/ by Anthony P. Pennino.
Reminder of title:	"the history we haven't had" /
Author:	Pennino, Anthony P.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	ix, 251 p. :digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Theater - History - 20th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96686-1
ISBN:	9783319966861

Staging the past in the age of Thatcher = "the history we haven't had" /
Pennino, Anthony P.

Staging the past in the age of Thatcher"the history we haven't had" /[electronic resource] :by Anthony P. Pennino. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - ix, 251 p. :digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history..

1. Introduction: A Snowy Night in December -- 2. Competing Histories -- 3. Plays of the First Thatcher Ministry: "To the world's end. To the churchyard grave" -- 4. Plays of the Second Thatcher Ministry: "Demolition needs a drawing, too" -- 5. Plays of the Third Thatcher Ministry: "I shall destroy your power to resist" -- 6. Plays of the Two Major Ministries: "Let them see we are happy" -- 7. Conclusion: May 2, 1997 and Beyond.

This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period - including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel - who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin's concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: "the history we haven't had". This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.

ISBN: 9783319966861

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-96686-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

666820
Theater
--History--Great Britain--20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN2595 / .P46 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 792.094209048

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