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One night stands : a critic's view of modern British theatre
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ISBN: 1854591908 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Nick Hern books,

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Twenty-first century anxieties : dys/utopian spaces and contexts in contemporary British theatre
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ISBN: 3110758253 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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The book series CDE Studies invites monographs (and collections) on issues in contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. The book series is dedicated to the analysis and renegotiation of contemporary writers and plays and their historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological contexts.


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Beyond documentary realism : aesthetic transgressions in British Verbatim theatre
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ISBN: 3110715767 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship between contemporary British verbatim theatre and realism whilst questioning the much-debated mediation of the real in theses theatre practices.


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Theatre on terror : subject positions in British drama
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ISBN: 3110517086 3110515431 9783110517088 9783110515435 9783110517095 3110517094 3110515121 9783110515121 9783110635249 3110635240 3110515121 9783110515121 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter,

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In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both 'at home' and 'on the front line'. Beyond examining the construction and contestation of subject positions in domestic and (sub)urban settings, the book follows border-crossing figures to the shifting battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. What emerges through the analysis of twenty-one plays is not a dichotomy but a dialectics of 'home' and 'front', where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours of conflict. Revising the critical consensus that post-9/11 drama primarily engages with 'the real', Ariane de Waal argues that these plays navigate the complexities of the discourse - rather than the historical or social realities - of war and terrorism. British 'theatre on terror' negotiates, inflects, and participates in the discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global insecurities.


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Kitty Clive, or, The fair songster
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ISBN: 1787445569 1783273461 Year: 2019 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer

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Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. She dominated spoken as well as musical comedy. From the 1740s onwards, her reputation suffered a sharp decline. For anyone curious about star production in eighteenth-century Britain, her story is not to be missed.

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