Revisiting the Past in Contemporary British Theatre
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They do so through analysing a selection of contemporary British plays and performances, which includes work by Caryl Churchill, Caryl Phillips, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter and Tanika Gupta, among many others. Through underlining the dimensions of historical and human memory in these works, the study illuminates what a close relationship memory and history have and how they create meaning in contemporary British theatre.
While the first part of the book presents a collection of chapters on the memories of space and identities, the second part includes chapters within the context of political memories and trauma/crises; and the third part deals with the re/deconstruction of time and memory in the selected plays and new strategies for representing them in contemporary performances.
This volume showcases contemporary drama and theatre researchers going beyond the psychological foundations of memory studies and considering how memories construct or deconstruct current cultural, social and political matters in contemporary performances.
Dilek Inan is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Izmir Democracy University, Turkey. She has published widely on dramatic and post-dramatic theatre, in particular on the works of Harold Pinter, David Hare, David Greig, Martin Crimp, Conor McPherson, Moira Buffini and the novelist Colm Toibin in national and international journals. She has published a monograph entitled The Sense of Place and Identity in David Greig’s Plays (2010) and British Drama 1995-2015: Plays and Playwrights (2017). She also has chapters in Literature, Narrative and Trauma (2019) and in Mapping and the Logic of Place (2019).
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revisiting the Past in Contemporary British Theatre: History, Memory and Performance
Part 1: Memories of Space and Identities
1. Eroded Landscapes, Fragile Bodies: Intersecting Crises in the Plays of Caryl Churchill
Professor Vicky Angelaki, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
2. Movement, Music and Protest: NW Trilogy, History, and Collaborative Play Cycles
Professor Benjamin Poore, University of York, UK
Part 2: Political Memories and Crises of the Past
1. Memorialising the murals: How do you remember The Troubles’ traumatic past?
Professor Catherine Rees, Loughborough University, UK
2. Cannibalistic History in Victorian Memory: Edward Bond’s Early Morning
Associate Professor Mesut Günenç, Adnan Menderes University, Turkey
3. Immigration Postmemory in Caryl Phillips’s Strange Fruit
Hakan Gultekin, University of East Anglia, UK
Part 3: Re/De-construction of Time and Memory in Contemporary British Drama
1. ‘Back to the Future’: The Contemporary British History Play
Professor Steve Waters, University of East Anglia, UK
2. Out of Time: Old Age and the Contemporary in 21st-Century British Theatre
Professor Sian Adiseshiah, Loughborough University, UK
3. “A Memory of Bucolic Life”: Harold Pinter’s Memory Plays
Professor Dilek Inan, Izmir Democracy University, Turkey
4. The Aesthetics of Engaging the Past and Memory in Howard Barker’s "Theatre of
Catastrophe"
Assistant Professor Enes Kavak, Gaziantep University, Turkey
5. Communicating the Difficult Past: Lions and Tigers by Tanika Gupta
Assistant Professor Pelin Dogan-Özger, Munzur University, Turkey
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350468047 / 9781350468047 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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