Holdsworth / Luckhurst A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-73907-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holdsworth, Nadine

Luckhurst, Mary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst
Part I National Politics and Identities 5
1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7
Geoff Willcocks
2 'I'll See You Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26
Claire Gleitman
3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48
D. Keith Peacock
4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66
Tom Maguire
Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85
5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific Theatre 87
Fiona Wilkie
6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107
Heike Roms
7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125
Nadine Holdsworth
Part III The Body, Text and the Real 147
8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane 149
Ken Urban
9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority 171
Helen Freshwater
10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics 200
Mary Luckhurst
Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223
11 Theatre and Science 225
David Higgins
12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting 245
Dan Rebellato
13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263
Sarah Gorman
Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre andPerformance Studies at the University of Warwick. She has publishedwidely on twentieth and twenty-first century British theatre and isthe author of Joan Littlewood's Theatre (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2011), Theatre & Nation (Palgrave,2010) and Joan Littlewood (Routledge, 2006). Shehas also edited John McGrath's collected writings ontheatre, Naked Thoughts That Roam About (NickHern, 2002) and his Plays for England (ExeterUniversity Press, 2005).
Mary Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Drama andco-founder of the prestigious new Department of Theatre, Film andTelevision at the University of York. She has edited ACompanion to Modern British and Irish Drama (Blackwell 2006)and is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre(2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to ReadingPlays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity inBritain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The CreativeWriting Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), OnDirecting: Interviews with Directors (1999), and OnActing: Interviews with Actors (2002) and Playing forReal (Palgrave 2010). She is a National TeachingFellow of the Higher Education Academy, and in 2012-13 wasamong 14 leading UK scholars to be awarded an internationalscholarship in recognition of her outstanding contributionsto theatre pedagogy and research.