Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Twenty-First Century Anxieties

Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre

Edited by: Merle Tönnies and Eckart Voigts

Volume 32 in the series Contemporary Drama in English Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758252

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About this book

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Anger, Anxiety and Hope: The Complicit Realities and Engaged/ing Communities of Contemporary British Dys/Utopian Theatre Merle Tönnies and Eckart Voigts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
“Something’s Missing”: Feeling the Structures of Project Neoliberal Dystopia Elaine Aston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
“To Watch is not Enough”: Utopia, Performance, and Hope(lessness) Nicole Pohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Environment, Virus, Dystopia: Disruptive Spatial Representations Vicky Angelaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Towards a Genealogy of the British Feminist Dystopian Play Paola Botham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Performing Utopia? The Contestation of Dystopian Space in Cecelia Ahern’s Flawed Series Julia Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Dystopian Dramaturgies: Living in the Ruins Trish Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
A Description of This World as if It Were a Beautiful Place: From Avant-Garde Destruction to Dys(u)topias Luciana Tamas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The End of Capitalism and the End of Democracy: Dystopian and Critical Utopian Political Economies in an Age of Austerity Sebastian Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Utopian Past and Dystopian Present? Nostalgia in Brexit Britain Dennis Henneböhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Civil Wars and Republics in Contemporary (Dystopian) Drama Anette Pankratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
The Spectre of Utopia/Dystopia: The Representation of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change as Culture-War Issue in Richard Bean’s The Heretic (2011) Matthias Göhrmann Publicly Available Download PDF	165
“I Am the Abyss into Which People Dread to Fall”: Encountering Anxiety in Dystopian Drama Leila Michelle Vaziri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Visions of Hell in Contemporary British Drama Peter Paul Schnierer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
“Hiding from the World”: Dystopian Subjectivity in Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness Ilka Zänger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
“Let the Doors Be Shut upon”… COVID-19: Relocating the Globe Theatre Stage to the Net Maria Marcsek-Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Theatre and English Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 254
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 1
Keywords: British Theatre; 21st century; drama

eBook

Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110758252

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110758191

Paperback

Planned Publication: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111529936