| Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Adiseshiah, Siān (Editor), Lepage, Louise (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349694711 ISBN-13: 9781349694716 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 790 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.96 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |