Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

Professor Martin Middeke is Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Professor Peter Paul Schnierer is Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr Aleks Sierz is the author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp and Rewriting the Nation.

• INTRODUCTION1. TERRY JOHNSON (Stephen Lacey - Cardiff, UK)2. SARAH DANIELS (Nicole Boireau - Metz, France)3. MARTIN CRIMP (Martin Middeke - Augsburg, Germany)4. JIM CARTWRIGHT (Anette Pankratz - Bochum, Germany)5. KEVIN ELYOT (Christina Wald - Augsburg, Germany)6. APRIL DE ANGELIS (Rebecca D'Monte - Bristol, UK)7. WINSOME PINNOCK (Elizabeth Sakellaridou - Thessaloniki, Greece)8. JONATHAN HARVEY (Peter Paul Schnierer - Heidelberg, Germany)9. PHILIP RIDLEY (Dan Rebellato - Royal Holloway, UK)10. DAVID GREIG (Janelle Reinelt - Warwick, UK)11. ANTHONY NEILSON (John Bull - Reading, UK)12. JOE PENHALL (Margarete Rubik - Vienna, Austria)13. SARAH KANE (Ken Urban - Harvard, USA)14. DAVID ELDRIDGE (Graham Saunders - Reading, UK)15. MARK RAVENHILL (Caridad Svich - New York, USA)16. JEZ BUTTERWORTH (Aleks Sierz - London, UK)17. DAVID HARROWER (Clare Wallace - Prague, Czech Republic)18. TANIKA GUPTA(Gabriele Griffin - York, UK)19. SHELAGH STEPHENSON (Peter Billingham - Portsmouth, UK)20. ROY WILLIAMS (Deidre Osborne - Goldsmiths, UK)21. GREGORY BURKE (David Pattie - Chester, UK)22. SIMON STEPHENS (Christopher Innes - Toronto, Canada)23. RICHARD BEAN (Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Siegen, Germany)24. debbie tucker green (Elaine Aston - Lancaster, UK)25. KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (Lynette Goddard - Royal Holloway, UK)CONCLUSION

This book offers a rigorous, but accessible way of rectifying that lack [of young people's knowledge of the oeuvre and philosophy of British playwrights]. The introduction offers as good a succint overview of theatrical developments and new writing in the 1980s, 90s and 2000s as I've read anywhere...And any book which includes language such as "revelling in staccato Mametian rhythms and Pinteresque menace" gets my vote for verbal imaginativeness and refusal to dumb down.