Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
To Begin to Speculate: Theatre Studies, Ethics and Spectatorship....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Violence, Testimony and Ethics in Martin Crimp’s The Country and The City....Pages 25-41
Bearing Witness and Ethical Responsibility in Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes....Pages 42-58
How to Mourn: Kane, Pinter and Theatre as Monument to Loss in the 1990s....Pages 59-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Two: Duologues and the Differend....Pages 79-95
The Undecidable and the Event: Ethics of Unrest in Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life and debbie tucker green’s truth and reconciliation....Pages 96-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Playing with Proximity: Precarious Ethics on Stage in the New Millennium....Pages 117-134
Witness or Accomplice? Unsafe Spectatorship in the Work of Anthony Neilson and Simon Stephens....Pages 135-151
Witnessing, Sexualized Spectatorship and the (De)construction of Queer Identities in Mother Clap’s Molly House, The Pride and Cock....Pages 152-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
From Front Page to Front Stage: War Correspondents and Media Ethics in British Theatre....Pages 173-189
Kicking Tots and Revolutionary Trots: The English Stage Company Young People’s Theatre Scheme 1969–70....Pages 190-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-216