Twenty-First Century Anxieties - (Contemporary Drama in English Studies) by Merle Tönnies & Eckart Voigts (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis

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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The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how twenty-first 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.

About the Author

Merle Tönnies, Paderborn University, Germany; Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany.