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Dateline:
6th March, 2009
Theatre Book Prize Shortlist
The Society for Theatre Research has announced the shortlist for the
Theatre Book Prize for books published in 2008:
The Golden Generation: New Light on Post-war British Theatre
Edited by Dominic Shellard (British Library)
Stage Presence: The Actor as Mesmerist
By Jane Goodall (Routledge)
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry,
Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families
By Michael Holroyd (Chatto and Windus)
Theatre and Globalisation : Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era
By Patrick Lonergan (Palgrave Macmillan)
Theatre of the Troubles
By Bill McDonnell (Exeter University Press)
Verbatim: Techniques in Contemporary Theatre
Edited by Will Hammond and Dan Steward (Oberon)
The winner of the Theatre Book Prize will be announced at 11.30 am
on Tuesday, 7th April at a reception in the Grand Saloon at the Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane.
The judges for the Prize are:
Professor Katherine Newey
Director of Post Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre at
the University of Birmingham and the author and editor of books and
articles, especially on nineteenth-century theatre.
Omar Okai
Choreographer and director of plays, working across musicals, revue
and pantomimes as well as dramatic theatre.
Ian Shuttleworth
Lead theatre critic of the Financial Times and editor of Theatre Record
The panel is chaired by Howard Loxton for the Society for Theatre
Research. He votes only if there is a tie.
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.
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