ABSTRACT
The issues most prominent in developments in theatre in Britain in the period 1960-90 are in part specific to the British cultural scene, in its historical and political contexts (the end of censorship in 1968, governmeotal attitudes to the arts in the 1980s), and in part related to trends in Europe as a whole and to changing critical and practical understandings of theatre (performance theory, focus on theatrical semiosis, the increasing prominence of 'physical theatre').
