Siân Adiseshiah is Reader in English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests are in contemporary theatre, utopian studies, and cultural gerontology. She is co-editor of debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives (2020), Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now (2016), Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now (2013), and author of Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill (2009).

A beautiful, quietly revolutionary book, never sentimental or overblown, but genuinely moving in its commitment to a transformative politics based on the imaginative formulation of how ‘a better world’ might look and feel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dramaturgies of Hope1. Utopia, Drama, Genre2. Genealogical Beginnings: Old Comedy, Longing, and Laughter3. Temporary Utopias of Female Community4. The Enhanced Utopian Subject5. Utopia and the Triumph of Ordinary Life6. Utopian ConversationsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Siân Adiseshiah is Reader in English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests are in contemporary theatre, utopian studies, and cultural gerontology. She is co-editor of debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives (2020), Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now (2016), Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now (2013), and author of Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill (2009).

A beautiful, quietly revolutionary book, never sentimental or overblown, but genuinely moving in its commitment to a transformative politics based on the imaginative formulation of how ‘a better world’ might look and feel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dramaturgies of Hope1. Utopia, Drama, Genre2. Genealogical Beginnings: Old Comedy, Longing, and Laughter3. Temporary Utopias of Female Community4. The Enhanced Utopian Subject5. Utopia and the Triumph of Ordinary Life6. Utopian ConversationsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Siân Adiseshiah is Reader in English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests are in contemporary theatre, utopian studies, and cultural gerontology. She is co-editor of debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives (2020), Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now (2016), Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now (2013), and author of Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill (2009).

A beautiful, quietly revolutionary book, never sentimental or overblown, but genuinely moving in its commitment to a transformative politics based on the imaginative formulation of how ‘a better world’ might look and feel.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dramaturgies of Hope1. Utopia, Drama, Genre2. Genealogical Beginnings: Old Comedy, Longing, and Laughter3. Temporary Utopias of Female Community4. The Enhanced Utopian Subject5. Utopia and the Triumph of Ordinary Life6. Utopian ConversationsEpilogueBibliographyIndex