1st Edition

Theatre of Conscience 1939-53 A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres

Edited By PETER BILLINGHAM Copyright 2002
184 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical contribution to wider post-war developments in British theatre. Peter Billingham offers the reader a... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Pilgrim Players; Chapter 3 The Adelphi Players and Adelphi Guild Theatre; Chapter 4 The Compass Players; Chapter 5 The Century Theatre; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Biography

Dr Peter Billingham is Principal Lecturer in Drama at Bath Spa University College, Bath, UK. A researcher and award-winning dramatist, he has worked with Cecil Davies on The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons, also available from Routledge Harwood.