Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre

Foreword; Aleks Sierz 1. To Begin to Speculate: Theatre Studies, Ethics and Spectatorship; Mireia Aragay PART I: (POST-)HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATIONS  2. Violence, Testimony and Ethics in Martin Crimp's The Country and The City; Clara Escoda 3. Bearing Witness and Ethical Responsibility in Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes; Hanna Scolnicov 4. How to Mourn: Kane, Pinter and Theatre as Monument to Loss in the 1990s; Mark Taylor-Batty PART II: THEORETICAL SPECULATIONS 5. Two: Duologues and the Differend; Dan Rebellato 6. The Undecidable and the Event: Ethics of Unrest in Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life and Debbie Tucker Green's Truth and Reconciliation; Martin Middeke PART III: SPECTATORIAL ETHICS 7. Playing with Proximity: Precarious Ethics on Stage in the New Millennium; Clare Wallace 8. Witness or Accomplice? Unsafe Spectatorship in the Work of Anthony Neilson and Simon Stephens; Vicky Angelaki 9. Witnessing, Sexualized Spectatorship and the (De)construction of Queer Identities in Mother Clap's Molly House, The Pride and Cock; Enric Monforte PART IV: ETHICS AND INSTITUTIONS 10. From Front Page to Front Stage: War Correspondents and Media Ethics in British Theatre; Christiane Schlote 11. Kicking Tots and Revolutionary Trots: The English Stage Company Young People's Theatre Scheme 1969-70; Graham Saunders Notes Index

Vicky Angelaki, University of Birmingham, UKMireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, SpainClara Escoda, University of Barcelona, SpainMartin Middeke, University of Augsburg, GermanyEnric Monforte, University of Barcelona, SpainDan Rebellato, University of London, UKGraham Saunders, University of Reading, UKChristiane Schlote, University of Zürich, SwitzerlandHanna Scolnicov, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelAleks Sierz, Rose Bruford College, UKMark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UKClare Wallace, Charles University, Czech Republic