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The Plays of Martin Crimp

Making Theatre Strange

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  • © 2012

Overview

Authors:
  1. Vicky Angelaki

    1. Department of Drama & Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham Department of Drama & Theatre Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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About this book

This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and argues that their challenge to audiences derives from their 'making strange': producing theatrical innovation, thus rendering the familiar unfamiliar.

Keywords

  • argue
  • consumption
  • event
  • fiction
  • industry
  • interview
  • knowledge
  • Materialism
  • performance
  • play
  • present
  • theatre
  • translation
  • violence
  • writing

Reviews

'Throughout, Angelaki's deep admiration for and sustained engagement with Crimp's work is evident. This has its most positive effects in her combination of textual and performance analysis: for this reason, her book makes an extremely useful contribution to which future scholars will no doubt be indebted.' - Rachel Clements, New Theatre Quarterly

"Vicki Angelaki's The Plays of Martin Crimp is the first monograph to bring an original scholarly approach to Crimp's unusual and challenging body of work." Sean Carney, Theatre Research International

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Drama & Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham Department of Drama & Theatre Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Vicky Angelaki

About the author

VICKY ANGELAKI is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK. She publishes on modern, recent and contemporary British and European theatre in relation to audience perception, spectatorship and citizenship, politics and aesthetics, as well as translation and adaptation within a broader cultural context.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Plays of Martin Crimp

  • Book Subtitle: Making Theatre Strange

  • Authors: Vicky Angelaki

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29371-7Published: 23 October 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 228

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