The Plays of Martin Crimp

This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and argues that their challenge to audiences derives from their 'making strange': producing theatrical innovation, thus rendering the familiar unfamiliar.

'Throughout, Angelaki's deep admiration for and sustained engagement with Crimp's work is evident. This has its most positive effects in her combination of textual and performance analysis: for this reason, her book makes an extremely useful contribution to which future scholars will no doubt be indebted.' - Rachel Clements, New Theatre Quarterly

"Vicki Angelaki's The Plays of Martin Crimp is the first monograph to bring an original scholarly approach to Crimp's unusual and challenging body of work." Sean Carney, Theatre Research International

Autorentext
VICKY ANGELAKI is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK. She publishes on modern, recent and contemporary British and European theatre in relation to audience perception, spectatorship and citizenship, politics and aesthetics, as well as translation and adaptation within a broader cultural context.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction: Reaching Beneath the Surface Urban Materialism and the Self as Commodity The Artist and the Industry of Mass Consumption (Un)Spoken Violence and Domestic Power Relations Urban Violence, Social Class, Political Transgressions Translating There and Then into Here and Now In Lieu of a Conclusion: Spectator as Character Appendix: Details of Original Staging for Plays, Adaptations, Translations and Versions by Martin Crimp Notes Selected Critical Sources on Martin Crimp Index