Selected Publications
Authored books
Shakespeare and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre: 1913-1929, The Society for Theatre Research, 1993
The Birmingham Rep: A City’s Theatre 1962-2002, Sir Barry Jackson Trust, 2003
Twentieth Century British Theatre Industry, Art and Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2011
Edited Collections
Claire Cochrane & Jo Robinson (eds) Theatre History and Historiography Ethics, Evidence and Truth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Claire Cochrane & Jo Robinson (eds), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography, Bloomsbury, 2019
Book Chapters
‘Creating Vital Theatre: New Voices in a Time of Transition’ in Gill Plain (ed) British Literature in Transition 1940-1960 Postwar, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp.313-330
‘Shakespeare and the Re/Vision of Indian Heritage in the Postcolonial British Context’ in Shormishtha Panja and Babli Moitra Saraf ( eds) Performing Shakespeare in India Exploring Indianness, Literatures and Cultures, SAGE, 2016
‘ A City’s Toys: Theatre in Birmingham 1914-1918’ in Andrew Maunder (ed) British Theatre and the Great War 1914-1919, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
‘Producing the Scene: The Evolution of the Director in British Theatre 1900-1950’ in Rebecca D’Monte (ed) British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950 Methuen Drama, 2015
‘Engaging the Audience: A Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies at Birmingham Rep and Leicester Haymarket Theatre since the 1990s’ in G.Ley and S.Dadswell (eds), Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre, University of Exeter Press, 2012
‘ Opening Up the Garden: A Comparison of Strategies for Developing Intercultural Access to Theatre in Birmingham and Nottingham’ in The Glory of the Garden: English Regional Theatre and the Arts Council 1984-2009, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, eds. Kate Dorney and Ros Merkin, 2010
‘“A Local Habitation and a Name”: Developments in Black and Asian Theatre in Birmingham since the 1970s’ in Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres, Cambridge Scholars Press, ed. Dimple Godiwala, 2006
‘Sans valeur, sans histoire. Le theatre amateur et l’historien-critique d’art’, trans. Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux, Anne Cuisset, Melissa von Drie in le theatre des amateurs un theatre de société(s), Actes du colloque international des 24,25 et 26 Septembre 2004, Le Triangle, Rennes, Théâtres en Bretagne, 2005, pp. 143-149
Journal Articles
‘Theatre and Urban Space: The Case of Birmingham Rep’, New Theatre Quarterly, XVI, Part 2 (NTQ 62), May 2000, pp.137-147
‘‘‘Playing the Community”: Reflections on Forced Upon Us and The Wedding Community Play Project’, Irish Theatre Magazine, Vol 2, no.5, Spring 2000, pp.33-39
‘“It stands for more than theatre”: Claire Cochrane talks to Paul Sutton about the work of C&T’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol 20, no 3, 2000, pp.188-195
‘“The Pervasiveness of the Commonplace”: The Historian and Amateur Theatre’, in Theatre Research International, Vol 26, no 3, 2001, pp. 233-242
‘“The Contaminated Audience” : Researching Amateur Theatre in Wales before 1939’, New Theatre Quarterly, XIX, Part 2, ( NTQ 74) May 2003, pp.169-176
“Place-Performance Relationships within the English Urban Context: Coventry and the Belgrade Theatre”, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol 33, no.3 2013, pp.303-20
‘Birmingham Rep, Youth and Community and the Products and Possibilities of Precarity’, Research in Drama Education: Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 22(1), 2017, pp. 36-49
‘The Haunted Theatre: Birmingham Rep, Shakespeare and European Exchanges’, Cahiers Élisabéthains 96. (1) 2018, pp. 75-88