Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann, eds.
(Dis)Continuities – Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002.
ISBN 3-88476-520-5, 245 pp., EURO 23,00
The volume contains the 16 papers given at the tenth annual CDE conference held in Vienna in 2001.
- Werner Huber: Contemporary Drama as Meta-Cinema: Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones
- Peter Lenz: „Anything new in the feckin‘ west?“: Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy and the Juggling with Irish Literary Stereotypes
- Michael Raab: The End of a Wave: New British and Irish Plays in the German-speaking Theatre
- Martin Buxbaum: „It’s All Politics, Stupid!“: David Hare and Mark Ravenhill’s Latest, Via Dolorosa and Some Explicit Polaroids
- Merle Tönnies: The ‚Sensationalist Theatre of Cruelty‘ in 1990s Britain, its 1960s Forebears and the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Mary Luckhurst: Contemporary English Theatre: Why Realism?
- Howard Barker: The Ethics of Relevance and the Triumph of the Literal
- José Ramón Prado Pérez: Issues of Representation and Political Discourse in Caryl Churchill’s Latest Work
- Heiner Zimmermann: Martin Crimp, Attempts on her Life: Postdramatic, Postmodern, Satiric?
- Edith Hallberg: „The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the … player“: Strategies of Conflict Transformation in Contemporary Australian Drama
- Reade W. Dornan: Whither Black Theater in the U.S.? Ungerminated Seeds From the Thirties
- Pamela Monaco: Drawing Rooms Drawing Forth Our Social Anxieties
- Christopher Innes: Designing Modern Life: The Impact of Theater on American Society
- Michelene Wandor: Feminism and Theatre Now: Continuities and Discontinuities … plus ça change …
- Christoph Houswitschka: (Dis)Continuities in Recent British Holocaust Drama
- Nilufer E. Bharucha / Sridhar Rajeswaran: Performatives, Performance and Performance Spaces