Description:
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research
This volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre.
Brief description:
Steve Nicholson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a series editor for Exeter Performance Studies and the author of British Theatre and the Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism, 1917-1945, also published by UEP.
Review Quotes:
Nicholson's skillful deployment of meticulous archival research is combined with an effective sense of the overall picture of theatre and performance in the 1960s and concludes with a persuasive caution against complacency about the situation after the end of pre-censorship.
--Russell Jackson "Theatre Notebook"