Blackwell Reference Online

Extract

Mary Luckhurst is senior lecturer in modern drama at the University of York. She is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006) and co-author of The Drama Handbook (2002). She is co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660 2000 (2005), On Acting (2001), The Creative Writing Handbook (2000) and On Directing (1999). She is also a playwright and director and most recently directed Caryl Churchill's Far Away at the York Theatre Royal. Susan Bennett is university professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Theatre Audiences (1990), Performing Nostalgia (1996) and Feminist Theatre (2006), as well as very many essays on a wide range of theatre and performance topics. John Brannigan is senior lecturer in English at University College Dublin. He is the author of Pat Barker (2006), New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (1998), Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist Writer (2002), Literature, Culture and Society in England, 1945 1965 (2002) and Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945 2000 (2003). Mary Brewer is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is author of Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Construction of Woman ’ (1999) and Staging Whiteness (2005), and ... log in or subscribe to read full text