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    Social Housing in Performance: The English Council Estate on and off Stage

    Social Housing in Performance by Beswick, Katie;

    The English Council Estate on and off Stage

    Series: Methuen Drama Engage;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Methuen Drama
    • Date of Publication 20 August 2020
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350178816
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages240 pages
    • Size 216x138 mm
    • Weight 281 g
    • Language English
    • 130

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    This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the council estate. Depictions of the council estate are brought into dialogue with global representations of what Chris Richardson and Hans Skott-Myhre call the 'hood', to tease out the specific features of the British context and situate the work globally.

    Katie Beswick's study provides a timely contribution to the ongoing national and global interest in social housing. As the housing market grows ever more insecure, and estates are charged with political rhetoric, theatre and socially engaged art set or taking place on estates takes on a new potency. Mainstream theatre works examined include Rita, Sue and Bob Too and A State Affair at the Soho Theatre, Port at the National Theatre, and DenMarked at the Battersea Arts Centre. The book also explores the National Youth Theatre's Slick and Roger Hiorns' Seizure, as well as community-based and resident led performances by Fourthland, Jordan McKenzie, Fugitive Images and Jane English.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements

    Three places: a preface
    Introduction: The council estate, definitions and parameters
    Chapter one: Quotidian performance of the council estate
    Chapter two: Class and the council estate in mainstream theatre
    Chapter three: Located on the estate
    Chapter four: Resident artists
    Conclusion: Three thoughts

    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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