A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (PDF)

List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick) and Mary Luckhurst (University of York). Part I: National Politics and Identities:. 1. Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s: Geoff Willcocks (Coventry University). 2. 'I'll See You Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past: Claire Gleitman (Ithaca College). 3. Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity: D. Keith Peacock (University of Hull). 4. Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace: Tom Maguire (University of Ulster). Part II: Sites, Cities and Landscapes:. 5. The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific Theatre: Fiona Wilkie (Roehampton University). 6. Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre: Heike Roms (University of Wales, Aberystwyth). 7. The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity: Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick). Part III: The Body, Text and the Real:. 8. The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane: Ken Urban (Harvard University). 9. Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority: Helen Freshwater (Birkbeck College, University of London). 10. Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics: Mary Luckhurst (University of York). Part IV: Science, Ethics and New Technologies:. 11. Theatre and Science: David Higgins (University of Leeds). 12. From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting: Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of London). 13. Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age: Sarah Gorman (Roehampton University). Index

Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and
Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published
widely on twentieth and twenty-first century British theatre and is
the author of Joan Littlewood's Theatre (Cambridge
University Press, 2011), Theatre & Nation (Palgrave,
2010) and Joan Littlewood (Routledge, 2006). She
has also edited John McGrath's collected writings on
theatre, Naked Thoughts That Roam About (Nick
Hern, 2002) and his Plays for England (Exeter
University Press, 2005).

Mary Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Drama and
co-founder of the prestigious new Department of Theatre, Film and
Television at the University of York. She has edited A
Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama (Blackwell 2006)
and is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre
(2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading
Plays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in
Britain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative
Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), On
Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999), and On
Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002) and Playing for
Real (Palgrave 2010). She is a National Teaching
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and in 2012-13 was
among 14 leading UK scholars to be awarded an international
scholarship in recognition of her outstanding contributions
to theatre pedagogy and research.

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