Vicky Angelaki – författare

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.

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.

This edited collection reflects on British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) and his remarkable and multifaceted career in theatre and opera, offering an interdisciplinary, collaborative and internationalist analysis of one of the most unique authorial voices globally in the recent and contemporary period. While taking stock of Crimp’s output across different theatre and performance genres as well as cultural and production contexts, the volume’s contributors are motivated not merely by looking back, but by strongly engaging with the present and future of this extraordinary writer.The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Élisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp’s writing and process.

This open access book considers how relationships to place and spatial ecologies more broadly are becoming redefined in light of intersecting climate, health, identity and care crises. Through an interdisciplinary, intersectional discourse it investigates how spaces of liminality frame contemporary human conditions in their interactional modes with both human and non-human ecologies. The interspace grounds the discussion, indicating states of flux and transience, where the in-between is the defining characteristic. This open access monograph, then, takes up the new complexity in one’s relationship(s) to their surrounding spaces through a rigorous discussion of texts and performance contexts in cutting-edge contemporary British theatre on a national and international scale. It seeks to address how in-betweenness spatially, temporally, environmentally, geographically and socially conceived has been emerging as the primary state for the unmoored individual of our time – and how it might serve as catalyst for performing one's agency in modes more empathetic not only to other humans, but, also, and equally, to the non-human world.