Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre

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Of Precariousness

Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre

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Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which contemporary British drama and theatre engage with ‘the precarious’. Crucially, what emerges from the discussion of a wide range of plays – including Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies and In the Republic of Happiness, Tim Crouch’s The Author, Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties, David Greig’s The American Pilot and The Events, Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money, Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur, Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists, Simon Stephens’s Pornography, theTheatre Uncut project, debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly and Laura Wade’s Posh – is the observation that contemporary (British) drama and theatre often realises its thematic and formal/structural potential to the full precisely by reflecting upon the category and the episteme of precariousness, and deliberately turning audience members into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency.

Probes the engagements of contemporary British drama and theatre with ‘the precarious’
provides a wide range of theoretical and philosophical contextualization
a major contribution to the aesthetics of contemporary drama and theatre studies

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Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, Spain; Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction
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Mireia Aragay and Martin Middeke

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On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot
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Mireia Aragay

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Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
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Enric Monforte

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Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur
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Christian Attinger

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Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness
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David Kerler

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Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author
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Christoph Henke

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“We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author
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Cristina Delgado-García

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Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists
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Bettina Auerswald

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Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon
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José R. Prado

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Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties
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Adina Sorian

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Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture
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Verónica Rodríguez

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Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money
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Elżbieta Baraniecka

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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
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Clara Escoda

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Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events
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Martin Riedelsheimer

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The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go
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Martin Middeke

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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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British drama/theatre; Twenty-first Century; precariousness; ethics

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Of Precariousness

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction

On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot

Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat

Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur

Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness

Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author

“We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’s The Author

Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists

Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon

Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’s Tomorrow’s Parties

Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture

Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money

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

Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events

The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’s The Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go

Notes on Contributors

Index

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