Theatres of conscience 1939-53
Subtitle: a study of four touring British community theatres
By: Peter Billingham.
Series: Routledge Harwood contemporary theatre studies ;; 41
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Traveling theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical contribution to wider post-war developments in British theatre, Peter Billingham offers the reader a unique insight into four companies which, motivated by enthusiasm, principles and creative innovation, sought to take the theatre of conscience to theatre-less communities in wartime Britain and during the following decade. Contemporaries of - amongst others - Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the Pilgrim Players, the Adelphi Players, the Compass Players and the Century Theatre represent a significant but rather overlooked phase in the development of twentieth-century British theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) and index.