Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness’
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-26803-6 (ISBN)
Through academic interrogation and industry insight, this unique collection of essays recognizes these works, shining a light on their creative achievements and legacies. With each chapter focusing on a different significant musical, a selection of shows spanning 2010s are analysed and the development and evolution of the genre is explored.
Touching on key, hit shows such as SIX, Matilda, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Grinning Man and Bend it Like Beckham, each chapter discusses different theatrical elements, from dramaturgy and musicology to reception, and also includes an interview with a practitioner related to each musical, providing in-depth understanding and invaluable practical and industry knowledge.
Identifying the intersectionality between industry insight and academic analysis, Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness’ challenges the narrative that the British musical is dead : creating a new historiography of the British musical that celebrates the work being created, while providing a manifesto for the future.
Gus Gowland is an award-winning musical theatre writer and composer (Pieces of String - The Stage Debut Award 2018) and is also Post Graduate Musical Theatre Co-ordinator at Leeds Conservatoire. Gus has previously worked at University of Lincoln, University Centre Shrewsbury and University of Wolverhampton, all UK, where he obtained his PhD in 2020. His research interests include LGBTQ+ representation in musical theatre and contemporary British musical theatre. Clare Chandler is a musical theatre practitioner and researcher. As a lecturer Clare has worked at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Edge Hill University and the University of Wolverhampton. She is currently a senior lecturer in Musical Theatre at the University of Lincoln, UK. Clare's research interests include the impact of technology on the development of contemporary musical theatre, feminism and musical theatre, and pedagogical practice and performer training. She directed the national premiere of Angry Birds the Musical by Dougal Irvine in 2018.
Foreword – Kate Marlais
Foreword – Tim Sutton
List of Contributors
List of Images
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Bros Abroad: Masculinities in Transition and Homosocial Bonding in Dougal Irvine’s Departure Lounge - Broderick Chow
Dougal Irvine Interview
Chapter 2 - ‘The Smell of Rebellion’ and ‘The Stench of Revolt’: The Carnivalesque Dramaturgy of Matilda the Musical from Page to Stage - Stephanie Lim
Ellen Kane Interview
Chapter 3 - ‘Glitching’ of gender and temporality in Lift – Jozey Grae
Perfect Pitch Interview - Andy Barnes, Wendy Barnes
Chapter 4 - Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical: Embodying British Identities - Kelsey Blair
Preeya Kalidas Interview
Chapter 5 - Flowers for Mrs Harris: Covid-19, Women’s Work, and the Musical’s ‘some kind of bliss’- Sarah K. Whitfield
Rachel Wagstaff & Richard Taylor Interview
Chapter 6 - ‘You’re him and he is you’: Identification with the Disabled ‘Freak’ in The Grinning Man - Ellen Armstrong
Toby Olié Interview
Chapter 7 - “Something Precious You Don’t Simply Give Away”: Intersections of Love and Queer Expression in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie - Hannah Marie Robbins
Rob Hastie Interview
Chapter 8 - ‘One of a kind, no category’: Coding Race, Gender, and Excess in SIX - Aviva Neff
Josh Bird Interview
Chapter 9 - My Left Right Foot: The Musical – Judith Drake
Noisemaker Interview
Chapter 10 - ‘As if Gathered in a Verbatim Fashion’: The (Mis)Use of Documentary Markers in Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth’s The Assassination of Katie Hopkins - Cyrielle Garson
Lucy Osborne Interview
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-26803-8 / 1350268038 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-26803-6 / 9781350268036 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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