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 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 10 ‘Sexy Kilts with Attitude’: Scottish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

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