How Diasporic?: Psychogeographies of the New Britain in (Post-)Millennial British Theatre

Abstract

Around the millennial years it was a priority for both the British Government and the Media to promote the changing, multicultural face of Britain. Contemporary British drama and its critics have also been largely preoccupied by the same agenda. How far are such spectacular representations of “new nationhood” indicative of actual, fundamental changes in the way Britishness is conceived today? How much of these aspirations has been fulfilled?