Twenty-first century drama : what happens now / Siân Adiseshiah, Louise LePage, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adiseshiah, Siân Helen, editor.

LePage, Louise, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--21st century--History and criticism.

Drama.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 348 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

Creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights -- such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare -- alongside a new generation of writers -- including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume's central themes -- the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood -- are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

Contents:

Introduction: what happens now / Siân Adiseshiah and Louise LePage. Part 1 Beyond mostmodernism: changing perspectives on drama : Room for realism? / Elaine Aston

Beyond belief: British theatre and the "re-enchantment of the world" / Chris Megson

The emancipated Shakespeare: or, what you will / Stephen Bottoms

The twenty-first-century history play / Paola Botham. Part 2 Austerity and class returns : Back to the future: gendering the economy in twenty-first-century drama / Louis Owen

Translating austerity: theatrical responses to the financial crisis / Mark O'Thomas

"Chavs," "gyppos" and "scum?" Class in twenty-first-century drama / Siân Adiseshiah. Part 3 Borders, race nation : These green and pleasant lands: travellers, gypsies and the lament for England in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem / Nadine Holdsworth

"Sexy kilts with attitude:" Scotish theatre in the twenty-first-century / Trish Reid

The politics of innocence in contemporary theatre about refugees / Emma Cox. Part 4 New humans, new dramaturgies, new worlds : The new genetics, genocide and Caryl Churchill / Mary Luckhurst

Twenty-first century casting: Katie Mitchell, cognitive science and "painting with people" / Marie Kelly

"Thinking something makes it so:" performing robots, the workings of mimesis and the importance of character / Louise LePage

Anthropo-scenes: staging climate chaos in the drama of the bad ideas / Una Chaudhuri. Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.

ISBN:

9781137484024

1137484020

9781137484031

1137484039

OCLC:

955102759