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Dateline:
27th February, 2008
Theatre Book Prize Shortlist
The Society for Theatre Research has announced the shortlist for the
2007 Theatre Book Prize.
The Theatre Book Prize was first awarded for 1997 to celebrate the
Jubilee of the Society for Theatre Research. It was created to encourage
the writing and publication of books on theatre history and practice,
both those which present the theatre of the past and those which record
contemporary theatre for the future. It is now presented annually for
a book on theatre which an independent panel of judges considers to
be the best published during the year. All new works of original research
first published in English are eligible except for play texts and studies
of drama as literature.
The shortlist for this year's prize is:
Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain
by Anne Varty (Palgrave Macmillan)
London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
by Richard J. Hand, & Michael Wilson (University of Exeter Press)
Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular
Enlightenment
by David Worrall (Pickering & Chatto)
Rudolf Nureyev
by Julie Kavanagh (Fig Tree/Penguin)
Spectacular Flirtations
by Gill Perry (Yale University Press)
The State of the Nation
by Michael Billington (Faber & Faber)
The winner will be announced at 11.30 am on 1st April, 2008, at a reception
in the Grand Saloon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The judges are:
Siân Phillips, CBE is an actress celebrated for her performances
in both classical and musical theatre and in movies, but her distinguished
career has also encompassed being a child actress on Welsh Radio and
cabaret performances.
Jeffery Richards is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University.
He is the author of many books, including Sir Henry Irving: an
Actor and his World, which was short-listed for this prize in
2005.
Claire Allfree is a theatre critic and journalist, currently writing
for London Metro, who brings the fresh eye of youth to the judging
panel.
Past winners of the prize are:
1997
Peggy: the Life of Margaret Ramsay
by Colin Chambers (Nick Hern)
1998
Threads of Time
by Peter Brook (Methuen)
1999
Garrick
by Ian McIntyre (Allen Lane)
2000
Politics, Prudery and Perversion: Censorship 1906-68
by Nicholas de Jongh (Methuen)
2001
Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing 1840-1880
by Jim Davies and Victor Emeljanow (Iowa University Press/University
of Hertfordshire Press)
2002
A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000
by Christopher Morash (Cambridge University Press)
2003
National Service
by Sir Richard Eyre
2004
Margot Fonteyn
by Meredith Daneman (Penguin/Viking)
2005
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James Shapiro (Faber and Faber)
2006
John Osborne: a Patriot for Us
by John Heilpern (Chatto & Windus)
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