Twenty-first century drama : what happens now / Sian Adiseshiah, Louise LePage, editors.
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TextCopyright date: London : Palgrave Macmillan, ℗♭2016 [2016]Description: xiv, 348 pagesContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137484031 (ebook)Subject(s): Drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism | Literature | Theatre studies | Dance | 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100 | Performing arts | Sport: generalGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137484024Summary: The collection has a deliberately British bent,examiningestablished playwrights - such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare - alongside anew generation of writers - including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett,and Kelly. 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.
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The collection has a deliberately British bent,examiningestablished playwrights - such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare - alongside anew generation of writers - including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett,and Kelly. 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.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137484024
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