Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre

Dr. Victor I. Ukaegbu is a senior lecturer and course leader for Drama at The University of Northampton. He has written on African and intercultural theatres, postcolonial performances, gender, black British theatre, applied theatre, including a book; The Use of Masks in Igbo Theatre in Nigeria: the Aesthetic Flexibility of Performance Traditions. He is Associate Editor of African Performance Review and a member of the Editorial Board of World Scenography(Africa/Middle East).Patrick Duggan's research interests lie in critical approaches to contemporary performance and the relationship between performance and the wider socio-cultural and political contexts in which it is made. He has recently published a monograph investigating the relationship between contemporary performance and trauma and his continuing research examines the relationship between cultural products and practices and their wider social contexts. Engaging with poststructuralist and political philosophy, Duggan's research is interdisciplinary in nature and particularly focused on questions of spectatorship, witnessing, trauma and ethics and is concerned to explore the socio-political efficacy of theatre, performance and other cultural practices.

'This rich, fascinating text will hopefully inspire debate within the academy, and provide valuable insight into a wide range of companies as Britishness reaches a crossroads.'

• Setting the Scene: Introducing Reverberations – Patrick Duggan and Victor UkaegbuChapter 1: Foco Novo: The Icarus of British Small-Scale Touring Theatre – Graham SaundersChapter 2: Insider Knowledge: The Evolution of Belfast’s Tinderbox Theatre Company – David GrantChapter 3: Volcano: A Post-Punk Physical Theatre – Gareth SomersChapter 4: Tiata Fahodzi: Second-Generation Africans in British Theatre – Ekua EkumahChapter 5: Keeping It Together: Talawa Theatre Company, Britishness, Aesthetics of Scale and Mainstreaming the Black-British Experience – Kene IgweonuChapter 6: Agitation and Entertainment: Rod Dixon and Red Ladder Theatre  – Tony GardnerChapter 7: Intercultural to Cross-Cultural Theatre: Tara Arts and the Development of British Asian Theatre – Victor UkaegbuChapter 8: Kind Acts: Lone Twin Theatre – Eirini KartsakiChapter 9: Political Theatre ‘without Finger-Wagging’: On the Paper Birds and Integrative Aesthetics – Patrick DugganChapter 10: ‘Angels and Modern Myth’: Grid Iron and the New Scottish Theatre – Trish ReidChapter 11: Acts of Poiesis: salamanda tandem – Mick Wallis and Isabel JonesCoda – Franc Chamberlain