As it seems needful to explain why this book came into existence, I may say that as an eager
student of Drama, I was anxious to trace out for myself the history of the Scottish Stage. The …

These are dramatic times in Scotland as it grapples with its changing and resurgent cultural
identity. The Scots will soon vote in a referendum on political independence from Britain, the …

That politics and theatre have much in common is a truism. The fall of Margaret Thatcher
followed exactly the sequence of a typical Greek tragedy as analysed by Aristotle and …

Since the publication of Colin McArthur's edited collection Scotch Reels in 1982, the
conceptual framework it offered has become powerfully influential among academics and …

This essay explores the representation of sexual and domestic violence in Northern Ireland,
in the public forum of the theatre, during the years immediately preceding the 1994 …

* 1 N our search for a new Irish theatre we are probably looking for 1premises with a clear
view from every window. Too often the view from our modern Irish windows is cluttered-up …

Abstract Theatre in Northern Ireland has frequently engaged with the civil conflict
colloquially referred to as the Troubles. Since the 1995 Ceasefire and the 1998 Good Friday …

The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in
Scotland, regarded by some as a response to a growing sense of political …