Useful Resources

Union des Théâtres de l'Europe
Alliance of 19 European public theatres founded in 1990 by French Culture Minister
Jacques Lang to promote European cultural union, and resist atomising commercial pressures

European Theatre Research Network
Recently founded at Kent University UK, ETRN has many European contacts, both research based and dramatic

Radio Hoops
1500 Local & International Radio Stations
Listen to Radio in English, Spanish, Italian, and more.

Radio France Internationale (French)

Radio France Internationale (English)

BBC News Europe
Current BBC Europe editor is Gavin Hewitt

European Union
Comprehensive EU portal site in 27 languages

EU Cultural Contact Point
Home of the EU Culture fund which distributes 400m euros per year

Wall Street Journal Europe
WSJ take on European financial news

European Voice
Economist Group venture, covers EU affairs weekly, through a newspaper first published in 1995, and daily, on its website

20 Best European Plays on the American Stage by John Gassner
Originally published in 1957, but still useful given the dirth of books on the subject

99 Plays by Nicholas Wright
Playwright Nicky Wright has also been Literary Manager at the UK National Theatre. Many of these plays are European

Contemporary European Theatre Directors ed. Maria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato
An ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during this period, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s. The featured directors are: Calixto Bieito, Piotr Borowski, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Castorf, Patrice Chéreau, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Kristian Frédric, Rodrigo García, Jan Lauwers, Christoph Marthaler, Simon McBurney, Daniel Mesguich, Katie Mitchell, Ariane Mnouchkine, Thomas Ostermeier, Patrice Pavis, Silviu Purcarete and Peter Sellars

Citizens: A Chronicle Of The French Revolution by Simon Schama
A very detailed narrative history of the French revolution from the Bourbon financial
crisis of the 1780s, through 1789 and onwards. This is of course where modern Europe starts

The French Revolution 1787-1804 by P. M. Jones
A dispassionate charting of the fall of the Bourbons to the fall of the first republic

Revolutions 1789-1917 by Allan Todd
Part of the Cambridge Perspectives In History series

We The People by Timothy Garton Ash
A first rate account of the revolutions of 1989 from an informed western perspective

Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic
An excellent early set of observations about the new Europe from a Croatian perspective

Mobility Of Imagination by Dragan Klai'c
Essential reading for modern European cultural operators

Europe by Norman Davies
A comprehensive cultural and political history of Europe from way back when to the present

Europe Since 1870 by James Joll
An excellent political history of modern European states

The Rebirth Of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy by Misha Glenny
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny
Misha Glenny has been Europe correspondent for both The Guardian and the BBC

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