‘Picture It If Yous Will’: Theatre and Theatregoing in Rural Scotland

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hamilton ◽  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

In the following article, Christine Hamilton and Adrienne Scullion review the system of theatre provision and production that exists in the rural areas of Scotland, most especially in the Highlands and Islands, assessing the policy framework that exists in the nation as a whole and in the Highlands and Islands in particular. They highlight the role and responsibilities of volunteers within the distribution of professional theatre in Scotland, challenge the response of locally based theatre-makers and nationally responsible agencies to represent rural Scotland, and raise issues fundamental to the provision of culture nationally. In doing so, they question what we expect theatre policy to deliver in rural areas, and what we expect rural agents to contribute to theatre provision and policy. Finally, they suggest that, in the system of rural arts in Scotland, there are wider lessons for the development of arts in and the arts of other sparsely populated and fragile communities. Christine Hamilton is the director and Adrienne Scullion the academic director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, where Adrienne teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies.

Self and Nation: Issues of Identity in Modern Scottish Drama by Women

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Scottish Parliament ◽  
The University ◽  
Scottish Politics

The creation of the devolved Scottish parliament in 1999, argues Adrienne Scullion, has the potential to change everything that has been understood and imagined or thought and speculated about Scotland. The devolved parliament shifts the governance of the country, resets financial provisions and socio-economic management, recreates Scottish politics and Scottish society – and affects how Scotland is represented and imagined by artists of all kinds. The radical context of devolution should also afford Scottish criticism an unprecedented opportunity to rethink its more rigid paradigms and structures. Specifically, this article questions what impact political devolution might have on the rhetoric of Scottish cultural criticism by paralleling feminist analysis of three plays by women premiered in Scotland in 2000 with the flexible, even hybrid, model of the nation afford by devolution, resetting identity within Scottish culture as much less predictable and much more inclusive than has previously been understood. An earlier versions was delivered by the author on 5 March 2001 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in receipt of the biennial RSE/BP Prize Lectureship in the Humanities. Adrienne Scullion teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she is also the academic director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research.

The Citizenship Debate and Theatre for Young People in Contemporary Scotland

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
New Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In this article Adrienne Scullion reviews the citizenship debate in education policy within contemporary – and specifically post-devolution – Scotland. She identifies something of the impact that this debate has had on theatre-making for children and young people, with a particular focus on projects that are participatory in nature. Her key examples are drawn from TAG Theatre Company's ‘Making the Nation’ project, a major three-year initiative that sought to engage children and young people throughout Scotland in ideas around democracy, politics, and government. Revisiting a classic cultural policy stand-off between instrumental and aesthetic outcomes, she asks whether a policy-sanctioned emphasis on process, transferable skills, and capacity building limits the potential for theatre projects to develop other kinds of theatre skills, such as critical reading and/or spectatorship. With its emphasis on participatory projects rather than plays for children and young people, the article complements her earlier essay, ‘“And So This Is What Happened”: War Stories in New Drama for Children’, in NTQ 84 (November 2005). Adrienne Scullion teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Adaptation, Action, Response: ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Ian Craven
Keyword(s):  
Television Studies ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Four Horsemen ◽  
Adaptation Action ◽  
The University

Several of the novels of the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867–1928) have provided the basis for theatrical adaptations: but the version of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) by Peter Granger-Taylor, staged in March 1990 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, was the first for sixty years. In the following feature, Ian Craven, who teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, provides a full account of Jon Pope's production, considering questions of adaptation, performance, and response, and also paying special attention to the influence of the screen versions of 1921 and 1962. His analysis is complemented by extracts from an interview with the adapter and director. A study by Margaret Eddershaw of Philip Prowse's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, in which Glenda Jackson took the title role during the same season at the Citizens, appeared in NTQ28 (November 1991).

Cultural policy and participatory art practices in Flanders

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Rutten ◽  
Helena Calleeuw ◽  
Griet Roets ◽  
Angelo Van Gorp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
Art Organizations

Purpose In Flanders, the subventions in the cultural sector are mainly divided and decided upon within the framework of the Arts Decree. Within this policy framework, art organizations may choose in their funding applications for “participation” as one of the five possible functions to describe their artistic and cultural practices. However, questions need to be raised about the different interpretations of the notion of participation within this policy framework. The growing trend of evidence-based policy-making implies that participation risks to become a “target” that needs to be achieved instrumentally, which paradoxically ignores the fact that participatory practices within culture and the arts are very often diverse, multi-layered and context-specific practices. Starting from this paradox, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the current policy framework is translated into different “participatory” art practices by art organizations and specifically how cultural practitioners themselves conceptualize it. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors discuss the results of a qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews with cultural practitioners about how they grapple with the notion of participation within their organizations and practices. Findings The results clearly show that practitioners use micro-politics of resistance to deal with different, and often conflicting, conceptualizations of participation in relation to this cultural policy framework. Research limitations/implications The implications of the findings are vital for the discussion about cultural policy. These micro-politics of resistance do not only have an impact on the development of individual participatory art practices but also on the broader participatory arts landscape and on how the function of participation is perceived within the renewed policy framework. Originality/value The original contribution of this paper is to explore the perspective of practitioners in cultural organizations about the function of participation in the Arts Decree in Flanders and specifically how the notion of participation is operationalized in their practices in relation to this cultural policy framework.

New Women in the New Drama

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
New Women ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
New Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
Women Dramatists

While considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the work of women dramatists during the wave of proto-feminist activity in the early years of the present century, the way in which women characters – whether created by male or female writers – were presented has been less adequately investigated. Here, Jan McDonald, Head of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, explores the work of well-known and largely-forgotten playwrights alike, discussing the ways in which the ‘new drama’ – the subject of Jan McDonald's recent book for the ‘Macmillan Modern Dramatists’ series – reflected the concerns of the ‘new woman’.

Meyerhold and Evreinov: ‘Originals’ at Each Other's Expense

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 321-332
Author(s):  
Tony Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Television Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The University

Our occasional series of original theatre documents continues with this translation, the first in English, of an article written in 1915 by the Russian director Nikolai Evreinov attacking his contemporary and erstwhile colleague Vsevolod Meyerhold for artistic plagiarism – an attack which, of course, reveals as much about the susceptibilities and private jealousies of its perpetrator as it does about its object. Tony Pearson, who currently teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, accompanies his translation with a full introduction and commentary, setting the polemics within the context of the Russian and early Soviet theatre, and the subsequent, separate careers of the two personalities involved.

‘And So This Is What Happened’: War Stories in New Plays for Children

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-330
Author(s):  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Young Audiences ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
War Stories ◽  
Second World

In this essay Adrienne Scullion explores the representation of war – and in particular of the Second World War – in contemporary theatre for children, considering how the narrative and performative conventions of drama communicate ideas about the conflict to young audiences. She argues that a taxonomy identified in relation to juvenile war literature – discourses of testimony and documentary, propaganda and escapism, myth and metaphor – resonates just as significantly in drama. This proposition is investigated in readings of three recent plays – Stephen Greenhorn's King Matt (TAG, 2001), David Greig's Dr Korczak's Example (TAG, 2001), and Nicola McCartney's Lifeboat (Catherine Wheels, 2002). She proposes that all three plays make different use of the conventions of telling war stories and those of theatrical performance to represent and describe war and, thereby, to explore contemporary values and expressions of citizenship – a declared goal of public policy-making in the UK. Adrienne Scullion teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

scholarly journals Comparative Cultural Policy Research in Europe: A Change of Paradigm

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Joh. Wiesand
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Methodological Problems

Abstract: Parallel to the ongoing European integration process, comparative cultural policy research has changed its orientation and methods during the last thirty years, moving from institutional, almost "diplomatic" exercises to networking exchanges, and has arrived at an approach which favours integrated research projects. Against this background, this paper reviews the methodological problems of and first steps taken towards a more action-oriented and, at the same time, cohesive ("European") concept of cultural research, which extends beyond a mere comparison of national policies and experiences. This is illustrated through individual research projects and the more recent appearance of ERICarts, the European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts. Résumé: En parallèle avec le processus d'intégration européenne en cours, la recherche comparative sur les politiques culturelles a changé son orientation et ses méthodes pendant les trente dernières années, passant d'exercices institutionnels, presque « diplomatiques », à des échanges entre réseaux et aboutissant à une approche qui favorise les projets de recherche intégrés. Dans ce contexte, cet article passe en revue les premiers pas faits dans la direction d'un concept de recherche culturelle (« européenne ») plus active et, en même temps, plus cohésive, qui irait au delà d'une simple comparaison entre politiques et expériences nationales. L'article passe aussi en revue les problèmes méthodologiques qu'une telle approche soulèverait. À titre d'exemple, il se rapporte à des projets de recherche individuels ainsi qu'à l'apparition plus récente de ERICarts, l'Institut européen de recherche comparative sur la culture.

BITEF Before and After 1989: Representation to Deconstruction of Social and Cultural Paradigms

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-280
Author(s):  
Ivan Medenica
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
The Arts ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director

Ivan Medenica here analyzes the cultural shift that the Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF) experienced after 1989. From its beginnings in the late 1960s until the end of the1980s, BITEF was a representation of the dominant multicultural, modernist, and progressive paradigm of Yugoslavia’s cultural policy. This was not an unambiguous position. On the one hand, modernist values were imposed by Tito’s authoritarian regime and, on the other, they were confronted with the conservative tendencies both in politics and the arts. As a multicultural and progressive platform, BITEF was one of the biggest victims in the field of the arts of Slobodan Milošević’s nationalist regime in the 1990s and the wars in former Yugoslavia. After the fall of Milošević in 2000, a complex period of tension started between the ‘reborn’ urge for democratization and internationalization, on the one hand, and persistent nationalism and conservatism, on the other. Due to its tradition, reinforced artistic ambitions, and international reputation, BITEF regained its fame. Its position today, however, is quite paradoxical. It is an anti-traditionalist and multicultural festival – within a culture and society that are becoming traditional and rather claustrophobic. Ivan Medenica is a Professor of Theatre at the University of the Arts in Belgrade in Serbia and has received the national award for theatre criticism six times. His publications include The Tragedy of Initiation, or the Inconstant Prince: The Classics and Their Masks. Medenica is also the artistic director of BITEF.

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