Staging Systemic Violence

British Theatre 2010-2019

Alex Watson

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Methuen Drama
22 August 2024

Theatre Studies; Theatre direction & production; Plays & playscripts; Violence in society

Series: Methuen Drama Engage

This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic violence, exploring productions that engage with concerns of protest, climate crisis, neoliberalism, racism and gender-based violence.

It offers a range of case studies from established and emergent playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Martin McDonagh, Anders Lustgarten, Lucy Kirkwood, Ella Hickson, Jasmine Lee-Jones, debbie tucker green, Zinnie Harris, and Travis Alabanza. Productions of their work in the 2010s are analysed through a framework of cultural theory, philosophy, and theatre and performance studies that offer insightful conceptions of violence and performativity.

Central to this book is the belief that theatre has the ability to depict issues of systemic violence in thoughtful and valuable ways, drawing on the medium's specific relations between creatives, texts, spectatorship and audiences to mindfully engage participants in the most pressing societal and cultural concerns of their time.

By: Alex Watson
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781350387270
ISBN 10: 1350387274
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Watson is a principal lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Theatre, Brighton, BIMM University, UK. His publications include articles for Theatre Notebook (2022) and Contemporary Theatre Review (2022), as well as chapters for Methuen Engage (2022), Contemporary Drama in English (2023), and The Routledge Companion to 20th-Century Theatre (forthcoming).

Reviews for Staging Systemic Violence: British Theatre 2010-2019

This book offers a rich and transformative account of how violence in all its forms intersects with race and gender, politics and protest, and threads itself through most of the key British plays and performances of the last decade. Watson has written a remarkable book that helps us see our recent theatre in blazingly new light. * Dan Rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, UK *