New Writing, Politics, and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre - AAALA022A

• Title: New Writing, Politics, and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2016
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (23.01.2016)

This course explores the wealth of new writing that has appeared on British stages over the last twenty years. Our
point of departure will be Aleks Sierz’ book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2000) and some of the
writers he discusses in relation to the theatre of provocation that hit the Anglophone theatre world in the mid-1990s.
We will then consider the debates around experiential theatre, postmodernity, thesis drama and verbatim theatre
as well as paying attention to those playwrights and practitioners who are sidelined by the In-Yer-Face label. At the
heart of the seminar will be the question of theatre’s relationship with the political, ethics and spectatorship. Our
readings will combine recent theoretical works on these issues with plays and performances from the period.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (22.01.2016)

Resources available in library (secondary materials):

Bigsby, C.W.E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume three, Beyond Broadway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Bigsby, C.W.E. Modern American Drama, 1945-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Bigsby, C.W.E. Modern American Drama, 1945-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

A handout on selected web resources and essay topics will be provided in week 2

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (22.01.2016)

Seminar

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (22.01.2016)

See http://www.english-department-prague.cz/