The document provides an overview of developments in British theatre from the 1940s to present day. It discusses the rise of social realism in the 1940s-1950s influenced by Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. The 1960s-1970s saw "shock tactics" and the growth of alternative theatre. The 1980s-1990s explored the impact of Margaret Thatcher's government. Significant playwrights mentioned include Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, and Willy Russell. The summary also highlights theatre in Scotland, for women, and from ethnic minority groups.
Black Diggers - Indigenous Australians and World War OneYaryalitsa
PowerPoint concerning Indigenous Australians and their participation in World War One. Information on a play called BLACK DIGGERS and the primary sources they used to devise the play.
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Black Diggers - Indigenous Australians and World War OneYaryalitsa
PowerPoint concerning Indigenous Australians and their participation in World War One. Information on a play called BLACK DIGGERS and the primary sources they used to devise the play.
This is a shortened version of the original PowerPoint which is yet to be completed but once is will be uploaded.
This has a bit of information with links for more information, and a wonderful collection of images and FACTS. Enjoy
I made this slideshow to link to MEMORIES OF EDEN, the book Mira and I edited based on the reminiscences of her mother, sent to us in note form over a period of 20 years.
Website: http://www.memoriesofeden.com
Blog: http://memoriesofeden.wordpress.com
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Drama: An Introduction, Development,Popular Types of Drama, Ancient and Medieval Drama, Anglo-Norman Period, Drama of the Age of Revival,Dramatists of Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare, Heroic Drama, Comedy of Manners, Neo Classical drama, The Age of Johnson, The Victorian Drama, Modern Age Drama, Contemporary Drama
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2. Poetry
New Arrivals
• Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
(1955), The Whitsun Weddings
(1964), All What Jazz (1970)
• Robert Conquest (ed.), New Lines
(1956)
• Foundation of ‘the Movement’ (Wain,
Amis, Larkin)
‘Pop Poetry’
• The Mersey Poets: Roger McGough,
Adrian Henri, Brian Patten; The
Mersey Sound (1967)
• John Cooper-Clarke
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3. Hughes and Heaney
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
• The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
• 1984: Appointed as Poet Laureate
• Rain Charm for the Duchy (1992)
• Birthday Letters (1995)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
• Death of a Naturalist (1966); Door into the
Dark (1969); Wintering Out (1972); North
(1975); Fieldwork (1979); The Redress of
Poetry (1990); Seeing Things (1991)
• Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1995
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4. New Developments
Benjamin Zephaniah
• Pen Rhythm (1980), The Dread Affair
(1985), Inna Liverpool (1998), Propaganda
(1996), Too Black, Too Strong (2001)
Linton Kwesi Johnson
• Inglan is a Bitch (1980), Bass Culture
(1980), Making History (1984)
David Dabydeen
• Slave Song (1984), Coolie Odyssey (1988)
Other figures:
Tom Paulin, Paul Durcan, Paul
Muldoon, Derek Malion (N. Ireland)
Andrew Motion, Tony Harrison,
Geoffrey Hill, James Fenton
5. Theatre
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6. • ‘The Troubles’
British Theatre • Scottish Theatre
• Introduction • Women’s Theatre
• Institutions • Ethnic Theatre
• Historical Influences • Significant Figures
• Harold Pinter
• 1940s and 1950s • Caryl Churchill
• Social Realism • Tom Stoppard
• Major Influences • Comedy
• Samuel Becket
• Beyond the Fringe
• Bertolt Brecht
• Alan Bennet
• 1960s and 1970s • Alan Ayckbourn
• ‘Shock Tactics’ • Willy Russell
• ‘Alternative’ Theatre • ‘Alternative’ Comedy
• Ethnic Theatre • Pantomime
• 1980s and 1990s • Musicals
• Theatre and Thatcherism • The Future of Theatre
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7. Institutions
Glasgow
Citizens’
Theatre Bristol
Old Vic
Liverpool
Playhouse
Sheffield
Crucible
Theatre
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8. The West End
Theatre Royal Haymarket
National Theatre
Barbican, Stratford
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9.
10. Historical Influences
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and A. Sullivan
(1842-1900)
HMS Pinafore (1878), The Mikado (1885)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Hedda Gabler (1890)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1913)
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11. 1940s and 1950s: Social Realism
• John Osborne, Look Back
in Anger, 1956
• Brendan Behan, The Quare
Fellow, 1956
• Shelagh Delaney, A Taste
of Honey, 1958
• John Arden, Serjeant
Musgrave’s Dance, 1959
• Arnold Wesker, The
Kitchen, 1959
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12. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
• Waiting for Godot, 1955
• Endgame, 1958
• Krapp’s Last Tape, 1958
• Happy Days, 1961
• Not I, 1973
• Winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature, 1969
• Major influence on
Pinter, Ionesco, Genet
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13. Bertolt Brecht (1895-1956)
• Mother Courage and Her Children,
1939/1941
• The Good Person of Sezuan, 1940
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1945
Works influenced by Brecht:-
• Brendan Behan, The Hostage, 1958
• Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons,
1960
• Joan Littlewood, Oh What a Lovely
War! 1963
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14. 1960s and 1970s: ‘Shock Tactics’
• Ann Jellicoe, The Knack,
1962
• Edward Bond, Saved, 1965
• Joe Orton, Loot, 1966; What
the Butler Saw, 1969
• Peter Shaffer, Equus, 1973
• David Hare, Slag, 1970;
Fanshen, 1975; Licking Hitler,
1978
• Howard Brenton,
Magnificence, 1973; Romans
in Britain, 1980
• David Edgar, The Jail Diary of
Albie Sachs, 1978
15. ‘Alternative’ Theatre
• Hull Truck, Red Ladder, Café La Mama
• Founding of Women’s Theatre Group,
1974: My Mother Says I Never Should
• Red Ladder, Strike While the Iron is Hot,
1974
• Founding of Monstrous Regiment, 1975
• Pam Gems, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi,
1976; Piaf, 1978
• Founding of Gay Sweatshop, 1975 –
Robert Patrick, One Person, The Haunted
Host; Alan Wakeman, Ships; Roger
Baker and Drew Griffiths, Mister X
• Laurence Collinson, Thinking Straight,
1976
• Jill Posener, Any Woman Can, 1976
• Michelene Wandor, Care and Control,
1977
• Martin Sherman, Bent, 1978
16. Ethnic Theatre
• Athol Fugard, Sizwe Bansi is
Dead, 1972; The Island, 1974
• Michael Abbensetts, Sweet Talk,
1973; Alterations, 1978
• For Television: The Museum
Attendant, 1973; Inner City Blues,
1975; Crime and Passion, 1976;
Black Christmas, 1977; Empire
Road, 1978-9
• For Radio: Home Again, 1975;
The Sunny Side of the Street,
1977; Brothers of the Sword, 1978
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17. 1980s and 90s: Theatre and Thatcherism
• David Hare, Plenty, 1978; A Map of
the World, 1983; Secret Rapture,
1988; Racing Demon, 1990;
Murmuring Judges, 1991; Absence of
War, 1993
• Howard Barker, Victory, 1983
• David Hare and Howard Brenton,
Pravda, 1985
• David Edgar, Maydays, 1983
• Howard Brenton, The Genius, 1983
• Louise Page, Falkland Sound, 1983
• Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali, Iranian
Nights, 1989
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18. ‘The Troubles’
Brian Friel
• Freedom of the City, 1973
• Translations, 1980
• Making History, 1988
• Dancing at Lughnasa,
1990
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19. Scottish Theatre
• John McGrath, Blood Red
Roses, 1986 (TV); There is a
Happy Land, 1987; Border
Warfare, 1989; John Brown’s
Body, 1990
• Liz Lochhead, Blood and Ice,
1982; Mary Queen of Sots Got
Her Head Chopped Off, 1987;
Jock Tamson’s Bairns, 1990
• Bill Bryden, The Ship, 1990
• 1990: Glasgow European City
of Culture
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20. Women’s Theatre
• Sarah Daniels, Ripen Our Darkness, 1981;
Masterpieces, 1984; The Madness of Esme
and Shaz, 1994
• Timberlake Wertenbaker, New Anatomies,
1981; The Grace of Mary Traverse, 1985;
Our Country’s Good, 1988; The Love of the
Nightingale, 1989
• Pam Gems, Camille, 1984; Stanley,
Marlene, 1996
• Deborah Levy, Pax, 1985; Heresies: Eva
and Moses, 1986; The B-File, 1992; Shiny
Nylon, 1994
• Clare McIntyre, I’ve Been Waiting, 1986
• Sarah Kane, Blasted, 1995; Cleansed, 1998
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21. Ethnic Theatre
• Hanif Kureishi, Outskirts, Borderline, 1981;
Birds of Passage, 1983; Sleep with Me, 1999
• Farrukh Dhondy, The Bride, Romance,
Romance, 1985
• Derek Walcott, Beef, No Chicken, 1985; The
Odyssey, 1993
• Killian Gideon, England is de Place for Me,
1985
• Caryl Philipps, Strange Fruit, 1981; Where
There Is Darkness, 1982; The Shelter, 1984;
The Wasted Years, 1985
• Winsome Pinnock, A Hero‘s Welcome, 1989;
Rock in Water, 1989, Mules, 1996
• Trish Cooke, Back Street Mammy, 1991;
Running Dream, 1992
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22. Major Figures: Harold Pinter (b. 1930)
• The Birthday Party, 1958
• The Homecoming, 1965
• Old Times, 1971
• No Man’s Land, 1975
• Mountain Language,
1988
• New Word Order, 1991
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23. Caryl Churchill (b. 1938)
• Vinegar Tom, Light
Shining in
Buckinghamshire, 1978
• Cloud Nine, 1979
• Top Girls, 1982
• Serious Money, 1987
• Mad Forest, 1990
• The Striker, 1994
• A Number, 2002
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24. Tom Stoppard
• Rosenkranz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, 1967
• The Real Inspector Hound, 1968
• Jumpers, 1972
• Travesties, 1974
• Dirty Linen, 1977
• Night and Day, 1978
• The Real Thing, 1982
• Squaring the Circle, Professional
Foul, 1984
• Arcadia, 1993
• Indian Ink, 1995
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25. Comedy
1960: Beyond
the Fringe
appears at
Edinburgh
Festival
1961: Transfer
of show to
London
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26. Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
• Habeus Corpus, 1973
• Enjoy, 1980
• Talking Heads, 1988
Screenplays:
• An Englishman Abroad,
1983; Talking Heads,
1998; The Madness of
George III, 1992
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27. Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939)
• Relatively Speaking, 1967
• Absurd Person Singular, 1972
• Joking Apart, 1978
• It Could Be One of Us, 1983
• A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984
• Woman In Mind, 1985
• A Small Family Business,
1987
• Man of the Moment, 1988
• House and Garden, 1999
• Snake in the Grass, 2002
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28. Michael Frayn (b. 1933)
• Alphabetical Order, 1975
• Clouds, 1976
• Donkey’s Years, 1977
• Make or Break, 1980
• Noises Off, 1972
• Look Look, 1990
• Copenhagen, 1998
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29. Willy Russell (b. 1947)
• When the Reds, 1973
• John Paul George
Ringo… and Bert, 1975
• Our Day Out, 1976
• Stags and Hens, 1978
• Educating Rita, 1979
• Shirley Valentine, 1986
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30. ‘Alternative’ Comedy
• The Comedy
Store (Soho)
• The Comic Strip:
Alexei Sayle, Rik
Mayall, Robbie
Coltrane, Ben Elton,
Dawn French,
Jennifer Saunders
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31. Pantomime
• Originated in 18th
century with John
Weaver, dance master at
Drury Lane Theatre
• Use of gesture, singing,
dancing, standard
routines and jokes
• ‘Dame’ played by man;
hero played by young
woman
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32. Musicals
• 1968: Hair opens in London (Galt McDermot,
Gerome Ragni, James Rado)
• 1968: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour
Dreamcoat, 1968
• 1969: Oh! Calcutta! (Kenneth Tynan)
• 1971: Godspell, (Steven Schwarz)
• 1971: Jesus Christ Superstar (Tim Rice,
Andrew Lloyd-Webber)
• 1978: Evita (Rice, Lloyd-Webber)
• 1982: Guys and Dolls (Richard Eyre)
• 1985: Les Miserables (RSC Production)
• 1989, Blood Brothers (Willy Russell)
• Andrew Lloyd-Webber: Cats (1981), Starlight
Express (1984); Phantom of the Opera (1986)
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33. Next Week
TV and Radio
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