State of the Nation

British Theatre Since 1945

• Author(s): Michael Billington,
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Pages: 435
• ISBN_10: 057121049X
  ISBN_13: 9780571210497
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Fiction / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , Literary Criticism / Drama , Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism ,

Description:... Michael Billington looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. He examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Attlee years to the satire boom of the 1960s and the growth of political theatre under Tony Blair in the post-Iraq period.