How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation?
Theatre & Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work.
The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. Foreword by Nicholas Hytner.

NADINE HOLDSWORTH is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Foreword; Sir Nicholas Hytner
  Introduction
 Nation, National Identity Aand Nationalism
 National Theatres and State-Of-The-Nation Plays
 National Iconography
 Nations Under Duress
 Cosmopolitanism: Beyond The Nation
 Convivial Theatre
 Conclusion
 Further Reading.