Contemporary British Theatre [electronic resource] : Breaking New Ground /
Angelaki, V.author.
Angelaki, Vicky,1980-editor of compilation.
This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Exit the Author""; ""2 'And I was struck still by time': Contemporary British Theatre and the Metaphysical Imagination""; ""3 Politics for the Middle Classes: Contemporary Audiences and the Violence of Now""; ""4 Language Games and Literary Constraints: Playing with Tragedy in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp""; ""5 Racial Violence, Witnessing and Emancipated Spectatorship in The Colour of Justice, Fallout and random""
""6 Old Wine in a New Bottle or Vice Versa? Winsome Pinnock's Interstitial Poetics""""7 Acting In/Action: Staging Human Rights in debbie tucker green's Royal Court Plays""; ""8 Children and the Limits of Representation in the Work of Tim Crouch""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.
Theater—History.
Literature.
Performing arts.
Theater.
British literature.
Theatre History.
Literature, general.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
British and Irish Literature.