Of Precariousness Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre [1. Auflage] 9783110546743, 9783110548716, 9783110546774, 9783110651591, 3110651599

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction......Page 9
On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot......Page 23
Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat......Page 39
Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur......Page 55
Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness......Page 71
Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author......Page 85
“We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author......Page 99
Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists......Page 117
Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon......Page 133
Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties......Page 149
Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture......Page 163
Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money......Page 179
Ethics, Precariousness and the ‘Inclination’ towards the Other in debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade’s Posh and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness......Page 195
Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events......Page 211
The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go......Page 225
Notes on Contributors......Page 243
Index......Page 245