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In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today

In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today

Aleks Sierz

Among thefirst tobenefit was Jez Butterworth,a twentysixyearold Cambridge graduate whose first play, Mojo,was producednotinastudio theatrebut on the main stage of the Royal Court. A calculated risk by artistic director Stephen Daldry, it was ...
Drama and the Postmodern

Drama and the Postmodern

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CHAPTER 12 POSTMODERN ETHICS IN MARK RAVENHILL'S SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS Leslie A. Wade British theatre in the 1990s witnessed the upsurge of an affrontive, often violent, youth-oriented drama characterized by Aleks Sierz  ...
Laura Wade: Plays One

Laura Wade: Plays One

Laura Wade

Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this collection clearly shows, Wade certainly has.’ Aleks Sierz, from his Introduction COLDER THAN HERE ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s: Voices, Documents, ...

Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s: Voices, Documents, ...

Aleks Sierz

Sarah Kane: Interview with Dan Rebellato This is an edited transcript of the Brief Encounter Platform, a public event during which Sarah Kane was interviewed by Dan Rebellato at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 3 November 1998.1 ...

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