Tag: popular theatre
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The Literary Gaze
Sunday 1st September 2024
writingHere is a sample from the introduction to my latest book about postwar British t…
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How do musicals symbolize our national identity?
Tuesday 2nd July 2024
blogGrace Barnes’s excellent new book is both provocative and illuminating
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Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War
Friday 29th January 2021
blogYesterday, my latest book was published in paperback.
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Brief Notes Towards a Definition of Leftfield Theatre
Wednesday 1st April 2020
writingCan the stranglehold of naturalism and social realism in British theatre ever be…
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Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre 1940–2015
Thursday 12th December 2019
blogThis time, I have taken a critical look at about 75 years of British theatre his…
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Bedroom Farce, Duke of York’s Theatre
Wednesday 31st March 2010
reviewPredictable, unchallenging, but sometimes quite good fun, Alan Ayckbourn does it…
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The Old Guard Departs (New Writing 2007)
Thursday 1st November 2007
writingIn ‘Fuck for Ever’, on the Babyshambles 2005 state-of-the-nation CD, Down in Alb…
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Unnatural Festivity (New Writing 2006)
Tuesday 1st August 2006
writingIn Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel, Saturday (2003), Henry, the brain-surgeon her…
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