By Victoria Sams
Immigration and modern British Theater: discovering a house at the Stage analyzes how modern British theater has replied to post-war immigration to the uk via its depictions of domestic and household lifestyles. Bridging literary research, theater heritage, and migration stories, the publication examines the ways in which immigration to the uk has reshaped British theatrical tradition and encouraged new conceptions of Britishness and of communal belonging. moreover, it examines how immigrant theater artists from largely various backgrounds (geographical, academic, cultural) have labored inside and round latest theatrical associations in Britain.
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Bayley explains: Immigration has long been an integral part of our country’s make-up, and never more so than now. 33 Bayley’s plays take a decidedly different approach from Bean’s. An immediately obvious difference is in the characterization, which, as her quote above suggests, aims to give a fuller dimension to migrant stories that are often decontextualized or caricatured. Bean’s characterization depicts its migrants through broad cultural stereotypes, which simultaneously drew praise from some critics and theatergoers for its irreverent mockery of all cultures treated and accusations of racist caricature by some of its critics and audience members.
6 These shifts were accompanied by a boost in the birthrates, such that from 1950 to 1970, the UK population rose 13%. 7 From the early postwar period to the early 1960s, the rates of immigration from the Caribbean and South Asia were low, with about 16,000 people from the Caribbean and 3,000 migrants from India arriving each year. Beginning with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, stricter limitations were placed on the numbers of British overseas citizens, particularly on the mainly non-white “New Commonwealth” citizens, allowed to settle in the UK.
Is it the cumulative impact of centuries/generations of migrants? ”36 In its companion book, many contributors note the dearth of integrated scholarship on immigration to London and to Britain more broadly, and argue that this neglect has misrepresented the constitutive roles that immigrants and immigration have played in the past and present of both London and Great Britain. The book features essays by contributors such as Rozina Visram and Colin Holmes, whose work on immigration and immigrant communities has gained traction as more of the traces of these histories are being acknowledged and preserved.