Forms of conflict : contemporary wars on the British stage
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Forms of conflict : contemporary wars on the British stage
(Exeter performance studies)
University of Exeter Press, 2015
- hbk.
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the 'new wars' of the global era.
It questions how dramatists have responded aesthetically to the changing nature of conflict, focusing on plays written and performed after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Soncini examines how the works of playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Martin Crimp and Simon Stephens have provided an interpretative means to enlarge our understanding of the new patterns of conflict, ensuring theatre's continued cultural and political relevance.
Forms of Conflict explores the relationship between new forms of warfare and new forms of drama, illustrating what dramatic form can reveal about the post-9/11 landscape and complementing a rapidly growing field of contemporary war studies.
The appendix contains a complete list of war-related plays staged in Britain between 1990 and 2010, with a brief description of their topic and approach.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Scenes of War
2. This is Not a War: Mimesis in the Age of Simulacra
2.1 Presages
2.2 Far away, so close
2.3 Media narratives
3. War without Conflict / Theatre without Drama
3.1 Fragments from a warrior's discourse
3.2 The rest is silence
3.3 There's method in this randomness
4. 'Why Fabulate?'
4.1 Documenting war
4.2 The tribunal play: extending the code
4.3 Uneasy coaltions
5. The Performance of Witnessing
5.1 The talking cure
5.2 The artist is present
5.3 Technologies of recollection
6. Figures of Mediation
6.1 The translation turn
6.2 The mediator's invisibility
6.3 The combat linguist
6.4 Uncanny bodies
Appendix: New War Plays on the British Stage, 1990-2010
Works Cited
Index
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