Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
The paper considers how contemporary British theatre manifests an intensified concern for community that is expressed in representational strategies which emphasise states of precarity. Focusing on Tim Crouch's The Author (2009), David Greig's The Events (2013) and Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone (2016), it analyses how these plays invite engagement with experiences of being together on the edge, be it the edge of the sympathetic and the repulsive, of hospitality and hostility, or at the tipping point between the familiar and apocalyptic.