Of Precariousness

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Of Precariousness

Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre

Edited by: Mireia Aragay and Martin Middeke

Volume 28 in the series Contemporary Drama in English Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110548716

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About this book

Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which contemporary British drama and theatre engage with ‘the precarious’. Crucially, what emerges from the discussion of a wide range of plays – including Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies and In the Republic of Happiness, Tim Crouch’s The Author, Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties, David Greig’s The American Pilot and The Events, Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money, Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur, Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists, Simon Stephens’s Pornography, theTheatre Uncut project, debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly and Laura Wade’s Posh – is the observation that contemporary (British) drama and theatre often realises its thematic and formal/structural potential to the full precisely by reflecting upon the category and the episteme of precariousness, and deliberately turning audience members into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency.

Probes the engagements of contemporary British drama and theatre with ‘the precarious’
provides a wide range of theoretical and philosophical contextualization
a major contribution to the aesthetics of contemporary drama and theatre studies

Author information

Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, Spain; Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction Mireia Aragay and Martin Middeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot Mireia Aragay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat Enric Monforte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur Christian Attinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness David Kerler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author Christoph Henke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
“We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author Cristina Delgado-García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists Bettina Auerswald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon José R. Prado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties Adina Sorian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture Verónica Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money Elżbieta Baraniecka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Ethics, Precariousness and the ‘Inclination’ towards the Other in debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade’s Posh and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness Clara Escoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events Martin Riedelsheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go Martin Middeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 241
Keywords: British drama/theatre; Twenty-first Century; precariousness; ethics

eBook

Published: August 21, 2017
ISBN: 9783110548716

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2017
ISBN: 9783110546743

Paperback

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110651591