Contemporary British Theatre

This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.

Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Exit the Author; Dan Reballato 2. 'And I was Struck Still By Time': Contemporary British Theatre and the Metaphysical Imagination; Chris Megson 3. Politics for the Middle Classes: Contemporary Audiences and the Violence of Now; Vicky Angelaki 4. Language Games and Literary Constraints: Playing with Tragedy in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp; Elisabeth Angel-Perez 5. Racial Violence, Witnessing and Emancipated Spectatorship in The Colour of Justice , Fallout and Random ; Mireia Aragay and Enric Monforte 6. Old Wine in a New Bottle or Vice Versa? Winsome Pinnock's Interstitial Poetics; Elizabeth Sakellaridou 7. Acting In/Action: Staging Human Rights in Debbie Tucker Green's Royal Court Plays; Marissia Fragkou and Lynette Goddard 8. Children and the Limits of Representation in the Work of Tim Crouch; Helen Freshwater