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Playing for Time - Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre (Paperback)
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Playing for Time - Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre (Paperback)
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Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the
historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively
argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British
theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and
traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent
plays and productions. The diversity of the texts that are examined
is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by
contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of
novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and
Priestley. A key focus is Stephen Daldry's award-winning revival of
Priestley's An Inspector Calls, which is discussed in relation both
to other Priestley 'time' plays and to Caryl Churchill's
apocalyptic Far Away. Lost children are a recurring motif: Bryony
Lavery's Frozen, for example, is explored in the context of the
Soham murders (which took place while the play was in production at
the National Theatre), whilst three virtually simultaneous
productions of Euripides' Hecuba are interpreted with regard to the
Beslan massacre of schoolchildren. -- .
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