Twenty-First Century Drama

Chapter 1 Introduction: What Happens Now

Chapter 2 Room for Realism?

Chapter 3 Beyond Belief: British Theatre and the ‘re-enchantment of the world’

Chapter 4 The Emancipated Shakespeare: or, What You Will

Chapter 5 The Twenty-First-Century History Play

Chapter 6 Back to the Future: Gendering the Economy in Twenty-First-Century Drama

Chapter 7 Twenty-First Century Drama

Chapter 8 ‘Chavs’, ‘Gyppos’ and ‘Scum’? Class in Twenty-First-Century Drama

Chapter 9 These Green and Pleasant Lands: Travellers, Gypsies and the Lament for England in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem

Chapter 11 The Politics of Innocence in Contemporary Theatre about Refugees

Chapter 12 The New Genetics, Genocide and Caryl Churchill

Chapter 13 Twenty-First Century Casting: Katie Mitchell, Cognitive Science and ‘painting with people’

Chapter 14 ‘Thinking Something Makes It So’: Performing Robots, the Workings of Mimesis and the Importance of Character

Chapter 15 Anthropo-Scenes: Staging Climate Chaos in the Drama of Bad Ideas