Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now - 9781137484024

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 û such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare û alongside a new generation of writers û 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 volumeÆs central themes û the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood û are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

• | Author: Si?n Adiseshiah, Louise LePage
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 362 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1137484020
• | ISBN-13: 9781137484024