Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis

Abstract

This book analyses twenty-first-century plays by nine influential British writers – Caryl Churchill, Mike Bartlett, Dennis Kelly, Duncan Macmillan, Nick Payne, Martin Crimp, Simon Stephens, debbie tucker green, and Lucy Prebble – in the context of contemporary social crises, particularly economic crises – and finds reasons to be hopeful.