Preface and Acknowledgements
Reader's Guide
List of Contributors
Selective Reference Bibliography
The Companion
Colin Chambers is Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997, and has also been a journalist and theatre critic. He is co-author with Richard Nelson of Kenneth’s First Play and Tynan (both Royal Shakespeare Company), and he selected and edited for performance Three Farces by John Maddison Morton, which were produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. As well as editing the Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Colin has written extensively on the theatre including Other Spaces: New Writing and the RSC, Playwrights’ Progress (with Michael Prior), The Story of Unity Theatre, Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize), Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance – Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History.
"Many contributors are established experts...but there are some
superficial treatments as well, particularly by British writers
assigned to American topics...The entry on Tony Kushner gets the
title of the first part of Angels in America wrong; that on
Terrence McNally omits mention of several of his major works; and
the survey of lesbian theatre in the U.S. states that the
Lesbian-Feminist Theater Collective of Pittsburgh was formed in
1937...Regrettably, there is no survey article on theater libraries
or museums...At $195, the hardback edition of this resource, like
many of its publisher's products, is considerably overpriced. The
paperback, however, offers all types of libraries a generally
reliable entry point into the diverse world of twentieth century
dramatic and theatrical activity." - Rob Melton, Broadside, Winter
2007
"Topics are covered here that might otherwise prove elusive....A
particular highlight is the collection of articles throughout
written by practicing theater professionals....Valuable." - Library
Journal
"This work differs from other single-volume theater reference works
because of the diversity of its contributors....not only entries by
scholars but additional boxed entries written by active
professional theater insiders....The result is a less academic,
more interesting style than the typical reference work....covers a
wider geographic terrain than the Concise Oxford Companion to the
Theatre and is more contemporary. Only in the Continuum volume, for
example, are there entries on digital performance and the
Internet....Recommended."--Booklist
'...the work's international coverage is broad, it uses
contemporary terminology, and it features highlights from
performers' perspective (e.g. Performing Shaw by Daniel Massey).
Recommended for general readers through professionals'. CHOICE
*Blurb from reviewer*
'The book succeeds in making us aware of the multifarious aspects
of modern theatre, political and sexual, as well as artistic'. THE
STAGE
*Blurb from reviewer*
'The text serves as a jumping off point, giving satisfactory
information to readers seeking short answers...Topics are covered
here that might otherwise prove elusive...A particular highlight is
the collection of articles throughout written by practising theatre
professionals...Valuable'. LIBRARY JOURNAL
*Blurb from reviewer*
"...work of astonishing scholarship and research...no reference
library or centre of theatre research dare be without it... a
cornucopia of reference into every aspect of theatre from
performance to academia...many entries are devoted to important
work in amateur theatre." - Amateur Theatre
*Blurb from reviewer*
'a less academic, more interesting style than the typical reference
work...covers a wider geographic terrain than the 'Concise Oxford
Companion to the Theatre' and is more comtemporary...only here, for
example, are there entries on digital performance and the
Internet...Recommended'.
*Blurb from reviewer*
"Many contributors are established experts...but there are some
superficial treatments as well, particularly by British writers
assigned to American topics...The entry on Tony Kushner gets the
title of the first part of Angels in America wrong; that on
Terrence McNally omits mention of several of his major works; and
the survey of lesbian theatre in the U.S. states that the
Lesbian-Feminist Theater Collective of Pittsburgh was formed in
1937...Regrettably, there is no survey article on theater libraries
or museums...At $195, the hardback edition of this resource, like
many of its publisher's products, is considerably overpriced. The
paperback, however, offers all types of libraries a generally
reliable entry point into the diverse world of twentieth century
dramatic and theatrical activity." - Rob Melton, Broadside, Winter
2007
"Topics are covered here that might otherwise prove elusive....A
particular highlight is the collection of articles throughout
written by practicing theater professionals....Valuable." - Library
Journal
"This work differs from other single-volume theater reference works
because of the diversity of its contributors....not only entries by
scholars but additional boxed entries written by active
professional theater insiders....The result is a less academic,
more interesting style than the typical reference work....covers a
wider geographic terrain than the Concise Oxford Companion to the
Theatre and is more contemporary. Only in the Continuum volume, for
example, are there entries on digital performance and the
Internet....Recommended."--Booklist
'...the work's international coverage is broad, it uses
contemporary terminology, and it features highlights from
performers' perspective (e.g. Performing Shaw by Daniel Massey).
Recommended for general readers through professionals'. CHOICE *
Blurb from reviewer *
'The book succeeds in making us aware of the multifarious aspects
of modern theatre, political and sexual, as well as artistic'. THE
STAGE * Blurb from reviewer *
'The text serves as a jumping off point, giving satisfactory
information to readers seeking short answers...Topics are covered
here that might otherwise prove elusive...A particular highlight is
the collection of articles throughout written by practising theatre
professionals...Valuable'. LIBRARY JOURNAL * Blurb from reviewer
*
"...work of astonishing scholarship and research...no reference
library or centre of theatre research dare be without it... a
cornucopia of reference into every aspect of theatre from
performance to academia...many entries are devoted to important
work in amateur theatre." - Amateur Theatre * Blurb from reviewer
*
'a less academic, more interesting style than the typical reference
work...covers a wider geographic terrain than the 'Concise Oxford
Companion to the Theatre' and is more comtemporary...only here, for
example, are there entries on digital performance and the
Internet...Recommended'. -- BOOKLIST * Blurb from reviewer *
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