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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama
"As an introduction to contemporary British and Irish drama and its literature, this Blackwell concise companion is excellent.... But be careful, intellectual stimulation is certain!" (Reference Reviews, April 2009)
Nadine Holdsworth (Edited by), Mary Luckhurst (Edited by)
9781118492130, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 10 May 2013
320 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.404 kg
“This volume provides valuable insight into the issues and practices of contemporary theater. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” (Choice, 1 January 2014)
Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part I National Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 2 ‘I’ll See You Yesterday’: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of ‘Site’: Site-Specific Theatre 87 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Part III The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body’s Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane 149 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority 171 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics 200 Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223 11 Theatre and Science 225 12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting 245 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263 Index 283
Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst
Geoff Willcocks
Claire Gleitman
D. Keith Peacock
Tom Maguire
Fiona Wilkie
Heike Roms
Nadine Holdsworth
Ken Urban
Helen Freshwater
Mary Luckhurst
David Higgins
Dan Rebellato
Sarah Gorman
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
