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Twenty-First Century Drama

What Happens Now

Siân Adiseshiah editor Louise LePage editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:9th Jan '20

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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, 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.

“The volume offers fascinating glimpses into current trends in British drama with occasional forays to other English-speaking countries like Australia and the USA, to Japan and mainland Europe.” (Anette Pankratz, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (02), November, 2018)

ISBN: 9781349694716

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 472g

348 pages

1st ed. 2016