The New Wave of British Women Playwrights : : 2008 – 2021 /

The New Wave of British Women Playwrights : : 2008 – 2021 / / ed. by Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Aloysia Rousseau.

It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and par...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Angel-Perez, Elisabeth,
Angelaki, Vicky,
Boles, William C.,
Greenstreet, Hannah,
Hélie, Claire,
Mark, Lianna,
Prudhon, Déborah,
Rodríguez, Verónica,
Rousseau, Aloysia,
Schaaf, Jeanne,
Stewart, Eleanor,
Watson, Alex,
HerausgeberIn:
Angel-Perez, Elisabeth,
Rousseau, Aloysia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Drama in English Studies , 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: “Are We Not Over That?”
  • I Ecodramaturgies and Global Crisis
  • Population Concerns, Reproductive Justice, and Gendered Perspectives in Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs (2015), Vivienne Franzmann’s Bodies (2017) and Maud Dromgoole’s 3 Billion Seconds (2018)
  • Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Female Bodies: Ecofeminism in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland (2021) and Ellie Kendrick’s and RashDash’s Hole (2018)
  • Lucy Prebble’s Enron (2009): The Financial Crisis as Theatrical Spectacle in the Era of Liquid Modernity
  • How To Survive a Crisis: Forming a New Self in Zinnie Harris’s How to Hold Your Breath (2015)
  • II The Politics of Intimacy
  • Ella Hickson’s ANNA (2019) and Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017): Staging the Female Body Electric
  • debbie tucker green’s ‘troumatic’ dramaturgy
  • “Who Gets to Speak and How?”: Staging Autofiction in Debris Stevenson’s Poet in da Corner (2018) and Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018)
  • III Experimenting with Forms
  • “I Want the World to Change Shape”: Form and Politics in Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018)
  • Challenging Realism: The Confines of Domesticity in Morna Pearson’s Plays
  • Alice Birch – A Poet in the Theatre
  • Alecky Blythe and “Headphone Verbatim”: a Study of The Girlfriend Experience (2008)
  • IV In Conversation with…
  • Feeling a Responsibility to Art: An Interview with Ella Hickson
  • The Gordian Knots of Theatre: An Interview with Lucy Kirkwood by Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of playwrights, theatre practitioners and key concepts

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