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Twenty-First Century Anxieties : Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre / ed. by Merle Tönnies, Eckart Voigts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 32Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (VI, 254 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110758191
  • 9783110758368
  • 9783110758252
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Anger, Anxiety and Hope: The Complicit Realities and Engaged/ing Communities of Contemporary British Dys/Utopian Theatre -- “Something’s Missing”: Feeling the Structures of Project Neoliberal Dystopia -- “To Watch is not Enough”: Utopia, Performance, and Hope(lessness) -- Environment, Virus, Dystopia: Disruptive Spatial Representations -- Towards a Genealogy of the British Feminist Dystopian Play -- Performing Utopia? The Contestation of Dystopian Space in Cecelia Ahern’s Flawed Series -- Dystopian Dramaturgies: Living in the Ruins -- A Description of This World as if It Were a Beautiful Place: From Avant-Garde Destruction to Dys(u)topias -- The End of Capitalism and the End of Democracy: Dystopian and Critical Utopian Political Economies in an Age of Austerity -- Utopian Past and Dystopian Present? Nostalgia in Brexit Britain -- Civil Wars and Republics in Contemporary (Dystopian) Drama -- The Spectre of Utopia/Dystopia: The Representation of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change as Culture-War Issue in Richard Bean’s The Heretic (2011) -- “I Am the Abyss into Which People Dread to Fall”: Encountering Anxiety in Dystopian Drama -- Visions of Hell in Contemporary British Drama -- “Hiding from the World”: Dystopian Subjectivity in Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness -- “Let the Doors Be Shut upon”… COVID-19: Relocating the Globe Theatre Stage to the Net -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index
Summary: The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the selected plays use real and fictional spaces on stage and thereby manage to construct interactional spaces which the spectators are invited to share.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Anger, Anxiety and Hope: The Complicit Realities and Engaged/ing Communities of Contemporary British Dys/Utopian Theatre -- “Something’s Missing”: Feeling the Structures of Project Neoliberal Dystopia -- “To Watch is not Enough”: Utopia, Performance, and Hope(lessness) -- Environment, Virus, Dystopia: Disruptive Spatial Representations -- Towards a Genealogy of the British Feminist Dystopian Play -- Performing Utopia? The Contestation of Dystopian Space in Cecelia Ahern’s Flawed Series -- Dystopian Dramaturgies: Living in the Ruins -- A Description of This World as if It Were a Beautiful Place: From Avant-Garde Destruction to Dys(u)topias -- The End of Capitalism and the End of Democracy: Dystopian and Critical Utopian Political Economies in an Age of Austerity -- Utopian Past and Dystopian Present? Nostalgia in Brexit Britain -- Civil Wars and Republics in Contemporary (Dystopian) Drama -- The Spectre of Utopia/Dystopia: The Representation of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change as Culture-War Issue in Richard Bean’s The Heretic (2011) -- “I Am the Abyss into Which People Dread to Fall”: Encountering Anxiety in Dystopian Drama -- Visions of Hell in Contemporary British Drama -- “Hiding from the World”: Dystopian Subjectivity in Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness -- “Let the Doors Be Shut upon”… COVID-19: Relocating the Globe Theatre Stage to the Net -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index

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The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the selected plays use real and fictional spaces on stage and thereby manage to construct interactional spaces which the spectators are invited to share.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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