Contemporary British theatre : breaking new ground.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelaki, Vicky, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Theater.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 192 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre to redefine what the dramatic stands for today. The chapters focus on influential plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners to produce original and rigorous critical perspectives on the key debates informing theatre practice and scholarship today. This book places the spectator at the heart of the enquiry and examines the radical redefinition of form and content in the context of society, politics, authorship and intentionality, the metaphysical turn in drama, social interventions and resonance, expressive unpredictability, race and identity, ethics/responsibility and the boundaries of representation. Featuring contributors such as Dan Rebellato and Chris Megson, the volume discusses contemporary theatre by a range of playwrights including Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp, Tim Crouch, Dennis Kelly, Winsome Pinnock, Simon Stephens and debbie tucker green. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Exit the Author / Dan Rebellato Rebellato, Dan 9

2 'And I was struck still by time': Contemporary British Theatre and the Metaphysical Imagination / Chris Megson Megson, Chris 32

3 Politics for the Middle Classes: Contemporary Audiences and the Violence of Now / Vicky Angelaki Angelaki, Vicky 57

4 Language Games and Literary Constraints: Playing with Tragedy in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp / Elisabeth Angel-Perez Angel-Perez, Elisabeth 79

5 Racial Violence, Witnessing and Emancipated Spectatorship in The Colour of Justice, Fallout and random / Mireia Aragay Aragay, Mireia, Enric Monforte Monforte, Enric 96

6 Old Wine in a New Bottle or Vice Versa? Winsome Pinnock's Interstitial Poetics / Elizabeth Sakellaridou Sakellaridou, Elizabeth 121

7 Acting In/Action: Staging Human Rights in debbie tucker green's Royal Court Plays / Marissia Fragkou Fragkou, Marissia, Lynette Goddard Goddard, Lynette 145

8 Children and the Limits of Representation in the Work of Tim Crouch / Helen Freshwater Freshwater, Helen 167.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781137010124

1137010126

OCLC:

864520372