A companion to British-Jewish theatre since the 1950s /
"The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish theatre from the 1950s onwards, beginning with an analysis of the f...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] :
Methuen Drama,
2021
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Methuen drama engage.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction 1 Invisible otherness: British-Jewish Theatre since the 1950s / Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany and Jeanette R. Malkin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Part one. The post-war east-end scene: Pinter, Wesker, Berkoff, Kops. 2. The didactic theatre of Arnold Wesker: didactic, utopian, Biblical / Peter Lawson, Open University, London, UK ; 3 Re-staging the Jewish east end: Steven Berkoff and Bernard Kops / Jeremy Solomons, University of Reading, UK ; 4 The theatre of Harold Pinter: staging indefinable and divided 'Jewishness' / Peter Lawson 5 'A Jew who writes': The shadow of the Holocaust in Harold Pinter's work / Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK
- Part two. Force fields and faultlines: the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. 6 Holocaust commemoration in contemporary British Theatre: Eva Hoffman's Play, the ceremony / Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University, Chicago. USA ; 7 Dramatic responses to the resurgence of antisemitism: on trial
- the blood libel / Arnold Wesker and Steven Berkoff Axel Stähler, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK ; 8 Representing the Israel/Palestine conflict in contemporary British-Jewish Theatre / Mike Witcombe, University of Bath, UK
- Part three. Contemporary British-Jewish playwrights and theatres in Britain: continuities and departures. 9 'Affiliation and belonging': contemporary British-Jewish women playwrights / Eckart Voigts and Sarah Jane Ablett, TU Braunschweig, Germany ; 10 Three ways of being a contemporary British-Jewish playwright: Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber, Ryan Craig / Jeanette R. Malkin ; 11. Staging Jewishness in the 21st century: the key venues / Cyrielle Garson, Avignon Universit,̌ France
- Part four. Television drama 12 British-Jewish television drama: Jack Rosenthal to the present / Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK ; 13. 'It was f***ing biblical, mate': the maturity of British Television drama / Nathan Abrams, University of Bangor, UK
- Part five. Interviews with contemporary British Theatre artists (from 2017/2018). 14. Nicholas Hytner ; 15. Julia Pascal ; 16. Patrick Marber ; 17. Ryan Craig ; 18. John Nathan.