Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. A foreword xii
6. Introduction 1
7. I Incubation 19
8. 1 DNA in the classroom 21
9. 2 Suspended in time and place 39
10. 3 ‘I’ll teach you a thing or two’ 55
11. II Antibodies 71
12. 4 ‘Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?’ 73
13. 5 Utopia 90
14. 6 Beautiful doom 105
15. 7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s early drama 118
16. III False positives 135
17. 8 ‘I just want it to be your words’ 137
18. 9 ‘What is the difference between made up and real?’ 152
19. 10 ‘What else isn’t true?’, or, Dennis Kelly’s expressionism 170
20. 11 Atopia 184
21. IV Variants 201
22. 12 ‘Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?’ 203
23. 13 Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company 217
24. 14 Performing stories, engaging audiences 233
25. Conclusion 251
26. Index 264
27. Plates 267