In the 1990s, British theater audiences were shocked to see blatant
portrayals of physical and psychological violence, murder, rape,
incest, adultery, drug abuse, and homosexuality onstage. These
confrontational and aggressive plays, written by young, honest, and
uncompromising playwrights, came to be known as in-yer-face
theater. With their use of obscene language, nudity, and even the
performance of actual sex acts onstage, the playwrights in this
genre intended to force people to think about and question their
own desires and impulses. On the flip side, sly humor proved an
equal part of the mix when in-yer-face dramatists turned their
barbed tongues on the hypocrisy and denial inherent in the decorum
of traditional drama.
Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking, Martin McDonagh's The
Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Patrick Marber's Closer are just a few
of the plays examined in In-Yer-Face Theatre. Aleks Sierz closely
analyzes this new genre in relation to audience and critical
reaction as well as to the history and current state of mainstream
and fringe British theater. In the process, he provides a vital
evaluation demonstrating that in-yer-face is not simply comprised
of sensationalist ploys and pessimistic assessments of modern life
but in fact offers keen observations on current attitudes toward
consumerism, violence, sexuality, and morality.
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