The New Wave of British Women Playwrights : 2008 - 2021.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Angel-Perez, Elisabeth.

Contributor:

Rousseau, Aloysia.

Series:

Contemporary Drama in English Studies

Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; v.33

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

New Wave of British Women Playwrights

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The book series CDE Studies invites monographs (and collections) on issues in contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. The book series is dedicated to the analysis and renegotiation of contemporary writers and plays and their historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological contexts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction: “Are We Not Over That?”

I Ecodramaturgies and Global Crisis

Population Concerns, Reproductive Justice, and Gendered Perspectives in Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs (2015), Vivienne Franzmann’s Bodies (2017) and Maud Dromgoole’s 3 Billion Seconds (2018)

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Female Bodies: Ecofeminism in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland (2021) and Ellie Kendrick’s and RashDash’s Hole (2018)

Lucy Prebble’s Enron (2009): The Financial Crisis as Theatrical Spectacle in the Era of Liquid Modernity

How To Survive a Crisis: Forming a New Self in Zinnie Harris’s How to Hold Your Breath (2015)

II The Politics of Intimacy

Ella Hickson’s ANNA (2019) and Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017): Staging the Female Body Electric

debbie tucker green’s ‘troumatic’ dramaturgy

“Who Gets to Speak and How?”: Staging Autofiction in Debris Stevenson’s Poet in da Corner (2018) and Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018)

III Experimenting with Forms

“I Want the World to Change Shape”: Form and Politics in Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018)

Challenging Realism: The Confines of Domesticity in Morna Pearson’s Plays

Alice Birch – A Poet in the Theatre

Alecky Blythe and “Headphone Verbatim”: a Study of The Girlfriend Experience (2008)

IV In Conversation with…

Feeling a Responsibility to Art: An Interview with Ella Hickson

The Gordian Knots of Theatre: An Interview with Lucy Kirkwood by Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau

Notes on Contributors

Index of playwrights, theatre practitioners and key concepts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-079632-5

OCLC:

1396915911