Publications
Authored books
Twentieth Century British Theatre Industry, Art and Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2011
The Birmingham Rep: A City’s Theatre 1962-2002, Sir Barry Jackson Trust, 2003,
Shakespeare and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre: 1913-1929, The Society for Theatre Research, 1993
Edited Collections
Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson & Trish Reid (eds) The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre and Performance Volume One 1900-1950, Routledge 2024
Claire Cochrane & Jo Robinson (eds), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography, Bloomsbury, 2019
Claire Cochrane& Jo Robinson (eds) Theatre History and Historiography Ethics, Evidence and Truth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Book Chapters
‘Challenging Times : Making Theatre During the War’ in Helen Brooks and Michael Hammond (eds) Cambridge Companion to First World War Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 55-73
‘England’ in David Kornhaber and James N.Lochlin (eds) Tom Stoppard in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp.26-34
‘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
‘The Archive, the Historian and the Relationships of Change’, Pamlętnik Teatrainy, 71 (2) 2022 pp.35-54
‘The Haunted Theatre: Birmingham Rep, Shakespeare and European Exchanges’, Cahiers Élisabéthains 96. (1) 2018, pp. 75-88
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
“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
‘“The Contaminated Audience” : Researching Amateur Theatre in Wales before 1939’, New Theatre Quarterly, XIX, Part 2, ( NTQ 74) May 2003, pp.169-176
‘“The Pervasiveness of the Commonplace”: The Historian and Amateur Theatre’, in Theatre Research International, Vol 26, no 3, 2001, pp. 233-242
‘“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
‘‘‘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
‘Theatre and Urban Space: The Case of Birmingham Rep’, New Theatre Quarterly, XVI, Part 2 (NTQ 62), May 2000, pp.137-147