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- Title
Scottish Drama: The Expanded Community.
- Authors
Reid, Trish
- Abstract
This chapter traces the ways in which the idea of community has been imagined and embodied on the Scottish stage since the mid-twentieth century. While working class, urban and typically masculinist conceptions of community dominated for much of the period - largely under the influence of Glasgow Unity Theatre, 7:84 Scotland, and a more general Clydesidism - in recent decades definitions of community on the Scottish stage have proliferated and expanded in ways that are productive and welcome. In particular, the generation of female playwrights who came to prominence in the 1980s extended the vocabulary of Scottish theatre in relation to both thematic focus and setting. The reinvention of political Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall further informed Scottish playwriting in the 1990s as did the growing appetite for autonomy in Scottish politics and culture, and the inevitable cultural bounce that accompanied devolution. While populist political traditions persist in Scottish theatre, and contemporary stagings of communal or shared values are marked by these traditions, nevertheless such stagings are considerably more inclusive than they have been in the past.
- Subjects
20TH century drama; SCOTTISH theater; COMMUNITIES; HISTORY
- Publication
SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language & Literature, 2016, Vol 25, p143
- ISSN
1571-0734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004317451_009