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Chapter 12 - Regions and Nations

The Myth of Levelling Up

from Part IV - Theatre and State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2024

Jen Harvie
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Dan Rebellato
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London
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This chapter explores the diversity of theatre outside London in the post-war period with a particular emphasis on work produced in the four nations that make up the UK and in the regions of England. It argues that much of this work has been under-examined and undervalued, and that a persistent metropolitan bias has long distorted existing accounts of British theatre in the period. The recent re-animation of distinctive regional and national identities within the context of an increasingly fractured and unstable UK, makes the continuation of this critical approach untenable. The chapter aims to set the record straight, therefore but also to note that metropolitan bias has been similarly at work in cultural policy and the distribution of funding, with the result that audiences in some parts of the country have been much better served than others. My aim is to consider the impacts of this persistent unfairness in its multiple contexts.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Regions and Nations
  • Edited by Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945
  • Online publication: 14 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377850.018
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  • Regions and Nations
  • Edited by Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945
  • Online publication: 14 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377850.018
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  • Regions and Nations
  • Edited by Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945
  • Online publication: 14 March 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377850.018
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