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Playing for time explores connections between theatre 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Collapsing House
2. Past Present: dramatisations of ‘return’
3. Enter the Revenant
4. Nunc Instantis: Arcadia and Copenhagen
5. Stories of Lost Futures
6. The Skriker’s Progeny
7. Blood Sacrifice
8. Daughters’ Tales
9. Coram Boy: a final story

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719061981, 978-0719061981
      ISBN10: 0719061989

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Playing for time explores connections between theatre 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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. The Collapsing House
      2. Past Present: dramatisations of ‘return’
      3. Enter the Revenant
      4. Nunc Instantis: Arcadia and Copenhagen
      5. Stories of Lost Futures
      6. The Skriker’s Progeny
      7. Blood Sacrifice
      8. Daughters’ Tales
      9. Coram Boy: a final story

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