Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction 1
5. On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot 15
6. Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat 31
7. Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur 47
8. Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness 63
9. Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author 77
10. “We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author 91
11. Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists 109
12. Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon 125
13. Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties 141
14. Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture 155
15. Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money 171
16. 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 187
17. Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events 203
18. The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go 217
19. Notes on Contributors 235
20. Index 237