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Introduction: Performing the Future
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Anette Pankratz
is Professor of British Cultural Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum. Among her research interests are British theatre and drama, mainly in the Restoration, the twentieth and the 21st centuries. She has published a monograph on representations of death and dying in contemporary British drama (2005) and co-edited (with Ariane de Waal) the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE) special issue on Bodies on Stage. She is the editor-in-chief-elect of JCDE.
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Merle Tönnies
is Professor of English Literature and British Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. Among her key research areas are British drama and theatre from the nineteenth to the 21st century as well as questions of space and British identities. She is co-editor of the series
anglistik & englischunterricht and reviews-editor-elect of theJCDE . Further publications include(En-)Gendering a Popular Theatrical Genre: The Roles of Women in Nineteenth-Century British Melodrama (2014) and the co-edited volumeNarrative in Drama (Contemporary Drama in English 18, 2011, with Christina Flotmann).
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May 19, 2021
Published Online: 2021-05-19
Published in Print: 2021-05-06
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Performing the Future
- “Who’s Going to Mobilise Darkness and Silence?”: The Construction of Dystopian Spaces in Contemporary British Drama
- More Future? Straight Ecologies in British Climate-Change Theatre
- String Figures of Response-ability and the Refusal to Respond in Clare Pollard’s The Weather
- Dystopia
- Talking to Machines: Simulated Dialogue and the Problem with Turing in Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime
- Travel Beyond Stars: Trauma and Future in Mojisola Adebayo’s STARS
- End Meeting for All: The Performative Meta-Collages of Forced Entertainment
- Viral Theatre: Preliminary Thoughts on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Online Theatre
- The Poetry in Drama, the Drama in Poetry
- Book Reviews
- Howard Sherman, ed. The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues: New Monologues Created during the Coronavirus Pandemic. London: Methuen, 2020, xii + 158 pp., £13.49 (paperback), £10.79 (eBook [watermarked]).
- Kemi Atanda Ilori. The Theatre of Ola Rotimi: Power, Politics and Postcolonialism. Leeds: Universal, 2017, viii + 156 pp., €21.90 (paperback).
- Wolfgang Schneider and Lebogang Nawa, ed. Theatre in Transformation: Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 257 pp., £29.99 (paperback).
- Lindsey Mantoan. War as Performance: Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xii + 236 pp., €72.79 (hardback), €72.79 (paperback), €59.49 (PDF ebook).
- Miriam Haughton. Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow. London: Palgrave, 2018, xiv + 243 pp., €93.59 (hardback), €74.96 (PDF ebook).
- Eamonn Jordan. The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities. London: Methuen Drama, 2019, xi + 235 pp., £75.00 (hardback), £28.99 (paperback), £64.80 (PDF ebook). Patrick Lonergan. Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950. London: Methuen Drama, 2019, ix + 263 pp., £65.00 (hardback), £17.99 (paperback), £17.27 (PDF ebook).
- Lara Shalson. Theatre & Protest. London: Palgrave, 2017, v + 89 pp., £6.57 (paperback).
- Stanton B. Garner Jr. Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement. London: Palgrave, 2018, xii + 277 pp., €77.99 (hardback), €25.99 (paperback), €63.06 (PDF ebook).
