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

by Merle Tönnies (Editor), Eckart Voigts (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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