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 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.
Introduction. What Happens Now; Sian Adiseshiah and Louise LePage.- PART I. Beyond Postmodernism.- 1. Room for Realism?; Elaine Aston.- 2. Beyond belief; Chris Megson.- 3. The Emancipated Shakespeare; Stephen Bottoms.- 4. The Twenty-First Century History Play; Paola Botham.- PART II. Austerity and Class Returns.- 5. Back to the Future; Louise Owen.- 6. Translating Austerity; Mark O'Thomas.- 7. 'Chavs', 'Gyppos' and 'Scum'?; Sian Adiseshiah.- PART III. Borders, Race, Nation.- 8. These Green and Pleasant Lands; Nadine Holdsworth.- 9. 'Sexy Kilts with Attitude'; Trish Reid.- 10. The Politics of Innocence in Contemporary Theatre About Refugees; Emma Cox.- Part IV. New Humans, New Dramaturgies, New Worlds.- 11. The New Genetics, Genocide, and Caryl Churchill; Mary Luckhurst.- 12. Twenty-First Century Casting; Marie Kelly.- 13. 'Thinking Something Makes It So'; Louise LePage.- 14. Anthropo-Scenes; Una Chaudhuri.- Bibliography.
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