Theatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life
of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this …

Abstract This chapter,'Staging the English Rural', defines English rurality and locates this
study in theatre studies, but also in a range of other disciplines, highlighting the …

While other chapters in this book have focused on the rural past, this chapter looks to the
future of English rural landscapes and the lives lived within them. This final chapter,'Rural …

While we were researching theatre in towns for this book, a performance was taking place
across Europe. Little Amal, a giant childrefugee puppet, began a walk from Gazientep in …

Kershaw and Nicholson ask whether “research in theatre and performance does anything
different than what goes on in other 'fields' where humans desire to better understand why …

In our vast province of Ontario, discourse surrounding theatre making is heavily focused on
large southern and eastern cities. With an autoethnographic approach, this work begins the …

Representing the Rural on the English Stage Page 1 Gemma Edwards Representing the Rural
on the English Stage Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century Page 2 Representing …

This chapter examines a Black British theatre performance which re-claims rural landscape
by way of revealing migratory knowledges, memories and histories as an integral part of it …

Crisis, Representation and Resilience 110 existence. Rather, as the historian David
Edgerton has recently argued, conceptions of Englishness in the first part of the twentieth …

In this thesis, I bring together discussions surrounding the London-centricity of the English
theatre industry (in terms of the distribution of public subsidy and that of theatre venues …