Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Turnbull, Olivia.

Title Bringing down the house : the crisis in Britain's regional theatres / Olivia Turnbull.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2008.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (237 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Changing Media, Changing Europe
Changing media--changing Europe series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
Contents Front Matter; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Build-up; Chapter 1 The Unsteady Foundations and the Post-war Cultural Unsettlement; Chapter 2 Plural Funding, Multiple Problems; Part Two: The Crisis; Chapter 3 Thatcher Gets Down to Business; Chapter 4 Major Dramas; Part Three: Casualties and Survivors; Chapter 5 Salisbury Playhouse; Chapter 6 Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead; Chapter 7 Redgrave Theatre, Farnham; Chapter 8 Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford; Chapter 9 Merseyside Everyman Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse; Chapter 10 Harrogate Theatre.
Summary Between 1979 and 1997 over a quarter of Britain?s regional theatres closed down. Those that survived found themselves constantly on the brink, forced to reduce their programmes radically and to go dark for extended periods of time. Bringing Down the House delves into how and why this crisis occurred, and examines the long-term effects on Britain?s theatre industry by revealing problems that extend beyond the Conservative government?s scant regard for the arts, right back to the Second World War. By probing the history of regional theatres from the introduction of state funding, Turnbull uneart.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Theater.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Theater -- Political aspects.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Turnbull, Olivia. Bringing down the house. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2008 9781841502083 1841502081 (OCoLC)225876138
ISBN 9781841502663 (electronic book)
1841502669 (electronic book)
1841502650 (electronic book)
9781841502656 (electronic book)
1282035126
9781282035126
9781841502083
1841502081
Standard No. 9786612035128