Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now

Siân Adiseshiah (Curatore)

Louise LePage (Curatore)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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.

• Curatore: Siân Adiseshiah, Louise LePage
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 348 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9781349694716

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