Crisis, Representation and Resilience

Clare Wallace is a member of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and author of The Theatre of David Greig (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama (Litteraria Pragensia, 2007). She has edited a number of volumes including Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity (2008) and Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre (2011). Her work broadly focuses on the relations between theatre, ethics and politics. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (DeGruyter).Clara Escoda is a member of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and author of Martin Crimp’s Theatre: Collapse as Resistance to Late Capitalist Society (DeGruyter, 2013). She has published articles on Martin Crimp’s and Alice Birch’s plays in journals such as Performing Ethos, Contemporary Theatre Review and New Theatre Quarterly. Her recent work explores the intersections between feminism, neoliberalism and aesthetics in plays by female writers, such as Alice Birch or Ella Hickson.Enric Monforte teaches English Literature and Theatre Studies, with an emphasis on Shakespeare and contemporary British theatre. He is a member of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and author of Gender, Politics, Subjectivity: Reading Caryl Churchill (PPU, 2001). She has also co-edited British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).José Ramón Prado-Pérez is a member of the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group and has co-edited World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices (Brill, forthcoming). He specialises in contemporary British theatre with an emphasis on post-war political drama and he has published articles on Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems, Punchdrunk and Theatre Uncut. He has been involved with Theatre Uncut as a performer and translator since 2013. He contributes regularly to the Gale Cengage Learning Encyclopedia, Shakespearean Criticism Series and Drama Criticism Series as academic advisor. He is on the board of the journal Culture, Language and Representation (Universitat Jaume I).

• Notes on Contributors1 States of Emergency: Performing Crisis Clare Wallace and Clara EscodaCorporealites2 Ageing as Crisis on the Twenty-first-century British Stage Siân Adiseshiah3 Creative Contexts and Crises of Care: Ella Hickson’s The Writer Vicky Angelaki4 ‘I’m Not Afraid of Being Labelled a Dirty Boring Feminist’: Reproductive Work, Feminism and/in Crisis at the Royal Court Elisabeth MassanaCollective action5 ‘We Need to Make the World We Live in’: Crisis and Utopia in Jack Thorne’s Hope and Lung’s E15 Enric Monforte6 Peopling the Theatre in a Time of Crisis Sarah BartleyNationscapes7 Fields in England: Contemporary English Drama and the Countryside David Pattie8 ‘Sinking Giggling into the Sea’: Postdemocracy and the State of British Politics in James Graham’s This House and Labour of Love José Ramón Prado-PérezContact zones 9 Theatre of Migration: Uncontainment as Migratory Aesthetic Verónica Rodríguez10 The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Charlene James’s Cuttin’It and Gloria Williams’s Bullet Hole María Isabel Seguro and Marta TiradoNew directions11 ‘Imaging’ Crisis: Photodramas in Focus Elisabeth Angel-Perez12 Playing in the Dark: Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation Stephen Scott-Bottoms13 Re-membering Assembly Louise Owen and Marilena ZarouliaIndex