Representing the rural on the English stage : performance and rurality in the twenty-first century / Gemma Edwards.
Edwards, Gemma, author.
2023
PR744.R87
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Title
Representing the rural on the English stage : performance and rurality in the twenty-first century / Gemma Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Gemma, author.
ISBN
9783031264788 (electronic bk.)
3031264789 (electronic bk.)
9783031264771
3031264770
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26478-8
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-26478-8 doi
Call Number
PR744.R87
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.9209321734
Summary
This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartletts Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshons The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moores Common to Black rural history in Testaments Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history. Dr Gemma Edwards is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work focuses on place, politics, and performance, particularly in non-metropolitan contexts. She has published on rurality in contemporary theatre, and her next project explores race, class, and English nationhood from 1945 to the present.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
Representing the Rural: Politics
Representing the Rural: Culture
Representing the Rural: Theatre
The Way Ahead
References
2 Staging the English Rural
Defining Rural England
Devolving Rurality
On Jerusalem
The Places of Contemporary English Theatre
References
3 Rural as Nation
Restoring the English Country Garden
'Deep England' and the Uses of Nostalgia
Grieving in Albion
Grieving for Albion
References
4 Simpler Times? Playing the Rural Past
Staging the Rural Past

Reading Rural Temporalities
Common: Staging Enclosure
The Sewing Group: Performing the Rural Past
Staging Collectives
References
5 Muck, Cattle, Pigs: Performing Rural Labour
A New Rural Politics?
Kitchen-Sink Rural Realism
Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives
Nostalgia and Remaining
References
6 White Open Spaces: Staging Black Ruralism
White Open Spaces and Black Men Walking
Blackness and Rurality
Racialising Ruralism
Performing Black Rural History
Conclusion
References
7 Rural Futures
References
Index

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