The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve.
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.
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Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness’
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Bros abroad: Masculinities in transition and homosocial bonding in Dougal Irvine’s Departure Lounge
- 2 ‘The smell of rebellion’ and ‘The stench of revolt’: The carnivalesque dramaturgy of Matilda the Musical from page to stage
- 3 ‘Glitching’ of gender and temporality in Lift (2013)
- 4 Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical: Embodying British identities
- 5 Flowers for Mrs Harris: Covid-19, women’s work and the musical’s ‘some kind of bliss’
- 6 ‘You’re him and he is you’: Identification with the disabled ‘freak’ in The Grinning Man (2016)
- 7 ‘Something precious you don’t simply give away’: Intersections of love and queer expression in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
- 8 ‘One of a kind, no category’: Coding race, gender and excess in SIX
- 9 My Left/Right Foot the Musical
- 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 (2018)
- Conclusion
- Index
- Copyright
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