Bringing Down the House
The Crisis in Britain’s Regional Theatres
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
192 pages
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7 x 9
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© 2008
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Build-up
Chapter 1 The Unsteady Foundations and the Post-war Cultural Unsettlement
Chapter 2 Plural Funding, Multiple Problems
Part Two: The Crisis
Chapter 3 Thatcher Gets Down to Business
Chapter 4 Major Dramas
Part Three: Casualties and Survivors
Chapter 5 Salisbury Playhouse
Chapter 6 Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead
Chapter 7 Redgrave Theatre, Farnham
Chapter 8 Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
Chapter 9 Merseyside Everyman Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse
Chapter 10 Harrogate Theatre
Part Four: The Legacy
Chapter 11 Tony’s Council: artful or armless?
References
Index
Review Quotes
Times Higher Education
"A painstakingly meticulous survey of the political and cultural war zone that is theatre funding. . . . Turnbull’s genius lies in her ability to track the underlying shifts in culture and taste that structure the apparent objectivity of these facts and figures. The resulting book is a cultural barometer that shows most vividly how attitudes to the arts change in accordance with cycles of financial boom and bust."
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