Contemporary British Drama

ISBN-13: 9781137610270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str.

Catherine Rees

Spis treści

Introduction: Some key terms and ideas.- 1. The Rise of Political Theatre.- The Gendering of Political Theatre: Women’s writing and feminist drama.- 3. In-Yer-Face theatre: The shocking new face of political drama?.- 4. The ‘new’ political – verbatim theatre and theatre of the ‘real’.- 5. Global Theatres: Representing Race, Religion and Identity.- 6. New Theatre Forms – Adapting the Novel and Filming the Stage.- Conclusion.

O autorze

Catherine Rees is Programme Director for Drama at Loughborough University, UK.  She works mainly in the area of Contemporary British and Irish theatre, and has published on the work of, amongst others, Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Harold Pinter.  Her main research interests involve analysing nation and gender in theatre texts, as well as exploring postmodern theatre, theatre and trauma and theatre and adaptation.