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The Contemporary Political Play - Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure (Paperback)
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The Contemporary Political Play - Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure (Paperback)
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What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century?
Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with
the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is
it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?
The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure
examines the politics of contemporary 'political' drama. It traces
the origins of the contemporary British political play to the
emergence of the idea of 'serious drama' in the late 19th century
through the work of Bernard Shaw, and argues that a Shavian version
of serious drama was inextricably linked to the social and
political structures of British society at the time. While
political drama is still often thought of as adhering to a Shavian
model in which social issues are presented through a dialectical
structure, Grochala argues that the different political structures
of contemporary Britain give rise to formally inventive
dramaturgies that are no less 'serious' or political than their
Shavian forebears. Through analysing the experimental dramaturgies
of contemporary plays by playwrights including Caryl Churchill,
Simon Stephens, Anthony Neilson, debbie tucker green and Mark
Ravenhill, among others, it offers a set of new principles for
understanding how a play functions politically and reveals how
today the dramaturgical structure of a play is as political as its
content.
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