Title: Playing for Time
Description: Explores connections between theater time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions. The diversity of the texts that are examined is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and Priestley.
Subjects: English drama, history and criticism, English drama, history and criticism, 20th century, English drama, themes, motives, Drama, Anxiety, Missing children, English drama, History and criticism, Themes, motives, Theater, History, Loss (Psychology) in literature