This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining repre

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken

Michael Patterson analyzes a group of twentieth century British playwrights' respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for radical restructurin

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship

This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the re