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Book SynopsisA collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisis. It pays particular attention to the way in which writers and practitioners consider the ethical and social challenges of crisis. Anchored in an interdisciplinary approach that draws from sociology, cultural theory, feminism, performance and philosophy, the book brings multi-faceted ideas into dialogue with the diverse aesthetics, practices and themes of a range of theatrical work produced in Britain since 2005.
Topics discussed include:AgeingAusterityGenderMigrancyMulticulturalismAesthetics
Companies discussed include: Theatre UncutLost DogCamden People''s PeopleLungBrighton People''s Theatre Phosphoros Theatre
Playwrights discussed include: Jez Butterworth Caryl Churchill Tim Crouch Vivienne Franzmann James Graham debbie tucker green Ella Hickson Charlene James Lucy Kirkwood Simon Longman Cordelia Lynn Simon Stephens Jack Thorne Chris Thorpe Gl
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 States of Emergency: Performing Crisis
Clare Wallace and Clara Escoda Corporealites 2 Ageing as Crisis on the Twenty-first-century British Stage
Siân Adiseshiah 3 Creative Contexts and Crises of Care: Ella Hickson’s
The Writer Vicky Angelaki 4 ‘I’m Not Afraid of Being Labelled a Dirty Boring Feminist’: Reproductive Work, Feminism and/in Crisis at the Royal Court
Elisabeth Massana Collective action 5 ‘We Need to Make the World We Live in’: Crisis and Utopia in Jack Thorne’s
Hope and Lung’s
E15 Enric Monforte 6 Peopling the Theatre in a Time of Crisis
Sarah Bartley Nationscapes 7 Fields in England: Contemporary English Drama and the Countryside
David Pattie 8 ‘Sinking Giggling into the Sea’: Postdemocracy and the State of British Politics in James Graham’s
This House and
Labour of Love José Ramón Prado-Pérez Contact zones 9 Theatre of Migration: Uncontainment as Migratory Aesthetic
Verónica Rodríguez 10 The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Charlene James’s
Cuttin’It and Gloria Williams’s
Bullet Hole María Isabel Seguro and Marta Tirado New directions 11 ‘Imaging’ Crisis: Photodramas in Focus
Elisabeth Angel-Perez 12 Playing in the Dark: Tim Crouch’s
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation Stephen Scott-Bottoms 13 Re-membering Assembly
Louise Owen and Marilena Zaroulia Index
