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

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· Contemporary Drama in English Studies Book 32 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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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.

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 s...

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

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

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