Theatre and National Identity

This book explores the ways that pre-existing 'national' works or 'national theatre' sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-pro

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Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on modern and contemporary theatre including Joan Littlewood's Theatre (2011), Theatre & Nation (2010) and co-edited (with Mary Luckhurst) A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (2008).

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This book explores the ways that pre-existing 'national' works or 'national theatre' sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-pro

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1. Introduction Nadine Holdsworth Part I: Revisiting 'National' Plays and Cultural Icons 2. "It's just changed color?": Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries? Anton Krueger 3. Over and Beyond Under Milk Wood: Dylan Thomas, National Icons and Re-Imagining the Cultural Landscape of Wales Nadine Holdsworth 4. Within These Walls: The Beaux Stratagem, the City of Derry and 'the only Loyalist theatre producer in Ireland' Wallace McDowell Part II: Directing the National Repertoire 5. La Casa De Bernarda Alba Garcia Lorca, the Spanish Civil War and the Issue of Historical Memory Maria M. Delgado 6. An Inspector Calls and Calls Again: Nation, Community and the Individual in J. B. Priestley's Play Maggie B. Gale 7. Stealing the Scene: Simon McBurney's All My Sons in New York Marvin Carlson Part III: The Nation's 'Imagined Community' 8. Born in YU: Performing, Negotiating, and Transforming an Abject Identity Silvija Jestrovic 9. What Happened to Our Nation of Culture? Staging the Theatre of the Other Germany Peter M. Boenisch Part IV: Nations in Flux 10. "Once Again With Feeling": Emily of Emerald Hill as Floating Signifier KK Seet 11. The Takarazuka Revue's Wind in the Dawn: (De-)nationalization of Japanese Women Nobuko Anan 12. 'Members of a Chorus of a Certain Tragedy': Euripides' Orestes at the National Theatre of Greece Marilena Zaroulia