The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 – 2021

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The New Wave of British Women Playwrights

2008 – 2021

Edited by: Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau

Volume 33 in the series Contemporary Drama in English Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796322

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About this book

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 particularly strong relevance of these poetics. These women playwrights sometimes invent radically new forms and sometimes experiment with conventional ones in fresh and unexpected ways, as for example when they re-energize naturalism and provide it with new missions.

The plays that are addressed are all concerned with the necessity to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world and to further investigate what it means to be human. Intimate or epic, and sometimes both at once, visionary or closer to everyday life, these plays approach the contemporary world through a multitude of prisms – historical, scientific, political and poetic – and open different and visionary perspectives.

Author information

Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: “Are We Not Over That?” Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau Publicly Available Download PDF	1
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) Alex Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Female Bodies: Ecofeminism in Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland (2021) and Ellie Kendrick’s and RashDash’s Hole (2018) Verónica Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Lucy Prebble’s Enron (2009): The Financial Crisis as Theatrical Spectacle in the Era of Liquid Modernity Eleanor Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
How To Survive a Crisis: Forming a New Self in Zinnie Harris’s How to Hold Your Breath (2015) William C. Boles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
II The Politics of Intimacy
Ella Hickson’s ANNA (2019) and Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes (2017): Staging the Female Body Electric Vicky Angelaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
debbie tucker green’s ‘troumatic’ dramaturgy Elisabeth Angel-Perez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
“Who Gets to Speak and How?”: Staging Autofiction in Debris Stevenson’s Poet in da Corner (2018) and Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018) Lianna Mark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
III Experimenting with Forms
“I Want the World to Change Shape”: Form and Politics in Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018) Hannah Greenstreet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Challenging Realism: The Confines of Domesticity in Morna Pearson’s Plays Jeanne Schaaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Alice Birch – A Poet in the Theatre Claire Hélie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Alecky Blythe and “Headphone Verbatim”: a Study of The Girlfriend Experience (2008) Déborah Prudhon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
IV In Conversation with…
Feeling a Responsibility to Art: An Interview with Ella Hickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
The Gordian Knots of Theatre: An Interview with Lucy Kirkwood by Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Aloysia Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index of playwrights, theatre practitioners and key concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Theatre and English Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 254
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 0
- Coloured Illustrations: 0
Keywords: Women Playwrights; Contemporary British Drama; New voices; Dramaturgy

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110796322

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110796223