Research Catalog

Title

Alternatives within the mainstream : British black and Asian theatres / edited by Dimple Godiwala.

Publication

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Godiwala, Dimple

Description

xi, 415 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

British black and asian theatres

Subject

• Geschichte 1970-2005
• Black theater > Great Britain
• Theater, South Asian > Great Britain
• English drama > South Asian authors > History and criticism
• English drama > Black authors > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Alternatives within the mainstream: British Black and Asian theatres : an introduction / Dimple Godiwala -- Mainstreaming African, Asian and Caribbean theatre : the experiments of the Black Theatre Forum / Alda Terracciano -- Writing Black back : an overview of Black theatre and performance in Britain / Deirdre Osborne -- The state of the nation : contemporary Black British theatre and the staging of the UK / Deirdre Osborne -- Genealogies, archaeologies, histories : the revolutionary 'interculturalism' of Asian theatre in Britain / Dimple Godiwala -- Talawa Theatre Company: the 'likkle' matter of black creativity and representation on the British stage / Victor Ukaegbu -- 'A local habitation and a name' : the development of Black and Asian theatre in Birmingham since the 1970s / Claire Cochrane -- Tara Arts and Tamasha : producing Asian performance -- two approaches / Dominic Hingorani -- Drama in the age of Kalyug : Behzti and Sikh self-censorship / Anthony Frost --^
• 'Black and female is some of who I am and I want to explore it' : black women's plays of the 1980s and 1990s / Kathleen Starck -- The search for identity and the claim for an ethnicity of Englishness in Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro and Valerie Mason-John's Brown girl in the ring / Dimple Godiwala -- A scourge of the Empire : Wole Soyinka's notorious theatre at the Royal Court / Zodwa Motsa -- Theatre as edutainment : Sol B. River's dramatic burden / Ashley Tellis -- Beyond victimhood : agency and identity in the theatre of Roy Williams / Elizabeth Barry and William Boles -- Aspects of madness and theatricality in Kwame Kwei-Armah's drama / Samuel Kasule -- Kali : providing a forum for British-Asian women playwrights / Dimple Godiwala -- 'They call me an "Asian writer" as well -- Tanika Gupta's Sanctuary, Skeleton and Inside out / Kathleen Starck -- 'Shameless' -- women, sexuality and violence in British-Asian drama / Valerie Kaneko Lucas -- The shape of a heart / Jatinder Verma --^
• My work in the theatre / Yvonne Brewster -- Uncensoring my writing / Valerie Mason-John (aka Queenie) -- Serious business / Sol B. River -- My experience as a rookie playwright / Bapsi Sidhwa.

ISBN

1904303668

LCCN

^^2006404557

OCLC

• 66299704
• SCSB-10527945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library