Twenty-first Century Drama: What Happens Now
by Siân Adiseshiah /
2016 / English / PDF
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Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of
drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and
remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first
century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so
distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are
marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope,
Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of
drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and
remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first
century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so
distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are
marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope,Twenty-First
Century Drama: What Happens Now
Twenty-First
Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously
critical framework for approaching the drama of this period,
including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions,
collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a
deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such
as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of
writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and
Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with
significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the
Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is
fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the
financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human
being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and
issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge
perspectives.
creates a broad, rigorously
critical framework for approaching the drama of this period,
including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions,
collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a
deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such
as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of
writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and
Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with
significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the
Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is
fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the
financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human
being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and
issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge
perspectives.
