“What I’m Aspiring to Be Is a Good Dramatist”: Alecky Blythe in Conversation with Chris Megson

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Articles
3. Introduction
4. Nation and Negation (Terrible Rage)
5. “Can I Tell You about It?”: England, Austerity and “Radical Optimism” in the Theatre of Anders Lustgarten
6. Theatricalizing the National Housing Crisis in Mike Bartlett’s Game and Philip Ridley’s Radiant Vermin
7. BlackLivesMatter: Remembering Mark Duggan and David Oluwale in Contemporary British Plays
8. Fake News and Drama: Nationalism, Immigration and the Media in Recent British Plays
9. Experiencing Nationlessness: Staging the Migrant Condition in Some Recent British Theatre
10. Multiculturalism, (Im)Migration, Theatre: The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, a Case of Staging Canadian Nationalism
11. ‘For We Are American’: Postmodern Pastiche and National Identity in Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
12. ‘The State of Us’: Challenging State-Led Narratives through Performance during Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’
13. The State We’re in: Violence and Working-Class Women on and off the Contemporary Irish Stage
14. Before the Fall: Looking Back on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “This Other Eden” Season (2001)
15. From Chimera to Reality: Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica or ‘What State Are We in?’
16. Does Verbatim Theatre Still Talk the Nation Talk?
17. “What I’m Aspiring to Be Is a Good Dramatist”: Alecky Blythe in Conversation with Chris Megson
18. A Victory for Real People: Dangers in the Discourse of Democratisation