from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José
Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
21st-century
English Drama
General
Dromgoole, Dominic. The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary
Playwriting. London: Methuen, 2001.
Holdsworth, Nadine, and Mary
Luckhurst, eds. A Concise Companion to
Contemporary British and Irish Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Lane,
David. Contemporary British Drama.
(Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010.*
Shank, Theodore. "The
Multiplicity of British Theatre." In Contemporary
British Theatre. London: Macmillan, 1996. 3-18.
Sierz,
Aleks. Rewriting the Nation: British
Theatre Today. Methuen Drama, 2011.
Sierz,
Aleks, Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer, eds. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights.
Methuen Drama, 2011.
Miscellaneous
Adebayo, Mojisola, and Valerie
Mason-John. "'No Straight Answers': Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost
Heroes." New Theatre Quarterly
25.1 (2009): 6-21.
Billingham, Peter. At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of
Five Contemporary Dramatists. London: A&C Black, 2007. (Interviews with
British dramatists).
Bly, Mark. "Pressing an
Ear Against a Hive or New Play Explorations in the Twenty-First Century." Theatre Topics 13.1 (2003): 19-22.
Dadswell, Sarah. "What Is
This Thing Called British Asian Theatre?" Contemporary Theatre Review 19.2 (2009): 221-6.
Edgar, David. "Unsteady
States: Theories of Contemporary New Writing." Contemporary Theatre Review 15.3 (2005): 297-308.
_____.
"The Playwright's Still the Thing." The Guardian (Comment Is Free) 29 Jan. 2015.*
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/29/playwright-death-british-dramatist-exaggerated-surge-new-plays
2015
Feature Issue: "A Forum
on Black Theatre: The Questions: What Is a Black Play? and/or What Is Playing
Black?" Theatre Journal 57
(2005). 571-616.
Flintoff, Ian. "Bloody
Poor Show." New Statesman 21
June 2004. (New British drama).
Forsyth, Alison, ed. Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and
Present. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Freeman, John. New Performance / New Writing.
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Godiwala, Dimple. "Kali: Providing a Forum for
British-Asian Women Playwrights." Studies
in Theatre and Performance 26.1 (2006): 69-83.
Gottlieb, Vera. "Theatre
Today—The 'New Realities'." Contemporary
Theatre Review 13.2 (2003): 5-14.
Hammond, Will, and Dan
Steward, eds. Verbatim Verbatim:
Contemporary Documentary Theatre. London: Oberon, 2008.
Harvie, Jen. Staging the UK. Manchester: Manchester
UP, 2005.
Helmer, Judith, and Florian
Malzacher, eds. Not Even a Game Anymore:
The Theatre of Forced Entertainment. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2004.
Hoby, Hermione. "Is
British Theatre Booming?" The
Observer 14 June 2009.
Hughes, Jenny. "Theatre,
Performance, and the 'War on Terror': Ethical and Political Questions Arising
from British Theatrical Response to War and Terrorism." Contemporary Theatre Review 17.2 (2007):
149-64.
Johnson, Robert. "New
Theatres—New Writing?" New Theatre
Quarterly 19.3 (2003): 286-90.
Kellaway, Kate. "Theatre of
War." The Guardian (August
2004).
Kritzer, Amelia H. Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain,
1995-2005. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Lane,
David. "Introduction." In Lane, Contemporary
British Drama. Edinburgh UP, 2010. 1-23.*
_____.
"Chapter 1: In-Yer-Face Theatre and Legacies of the New Writing
Boom." In Lane, Contemporary British
Drama. Edinburgh UP, 2010. 24-57.* (Simon Stephens, Gregory Burke, Caryl
Churchill).
_____.
"Chapter 2: Verbatim Theatre—The Rise of a Political Voice." In Lane,
Contemporary British Drama. Edinburgh
UP, 2010. 58-81.*
_____.
"Chapter 3: Writing and Devising—The Call for Collaboration." In
Lane, Contemporary British Drama.
Edinburgh UP, 2010. 82-107.* (David Eldridge, Bryony Lavery, Hidden City
Festival, Cartoon de Salvo).
_____.
"Chapter 4: Black and Asian Writers—A Question of Representation." In
Lane, Contemporary British Drama.
Edinburgh UP, 2010. 108-32.*
_____.
"Chapter 5: Theatre for Young People—Audiences of Today." In Lane, Contemporary British Drama. Edinburgh
UP, 2010. 133-56.* (Edward Bond, Fin Kennedy)
_____.
"Chapter 6: Adaptation and Transposition—Reinterpreting the Past." In
Lane, Contemporary British Drama.
Edinburgh UP, 2010. 157-87.* (Filter, Punchdrunk, Kneehigh, Northern
Broadsides, Headlong Theatre).
_____.
"Conclusion. Student resources." In Lane, Contemporary British Drama. Edinburgh UP, 2010. 188-215.*
Leach, Robert. "The
Short, Astonishing History of the National Theatre of Scotland." New Teatre Quarterly 23.2 (2007):
171-83.
Ley, Graham, and Sarah
Dadswell, eds. British South Asian
Theatres: A Documented History. Exeter: U of Exeter P, forthcoming 2010.
Middeke,
Martin, Peter Paul Schnierer and Aleks Sierz, eds. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights.
London: Bloomsbury-Methuen Drama, 2011.*
"New Writing: The
TheatreVoice Debate." Theatre Voice
28 May 2009.
http://www.theatrevoice.com
2009
Nickevic, Sanja. "British
Brutalism, the 'New European Drama', and the Role of the Director." New Theatre Quarterly 21.3: 255-72.
Norton-Taylor, Richard.
"Courtroom Drama." The Guardian
4 Nov. 2003.
Osborne, Deirdre.
"Writing Black Back: An Overview of Black Theatre and Performance in
Britain." In Alternatives within the
Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Ed. Dimple Godiwala.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 82-100.
_____. "'Know Whence You
Came': Dramatic Art and Black British Identity." New Theatre Quarterly 23.3 (2007): 253-63.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. "New
Black Math." Theatre Journal 57
(2005): 576-83.
Phillips, Caryl. "Lost
Generation." The Guardian 23
April 2005.
Rebellato, Dan. Theatre and Globalization. Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Reid, Trish. "'From
Scenes Like This, Old Scotia's Grandeur Springs': The New National Theatre of
Scotland." Contemporary Theatre
Review 17.2 (2007): 192-201.
Rutter, Barrie. "A
National Narrative." Panel at All
Together Now? British Theatre after Multiculturalism. Warwick U, 13-14 June
2009.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newwsandevents/audio/more/atn
2009
Schwanecke,
Christine. "9. Conclusion: 'The Contextual Dynamics of Dramatic
Storytelling' and the 'Performative Power of Narrative in British Plays'."
In Schwanecke, A Narratology of Drama. Berlin
and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 358- 78.* (Function of drama, British drama).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110724110/html
2022
Scullion, Adrienne. "The
Citizenship Debate and Theatre for Young People in Contemporary Scotland."
New Theatre Quarterly 24.4 (2008):
379-93.
Sextou, Persephone.
"Theatre in Education in Britain: Current Practice and Future
Potential." New Theatre Quarterly
19.2 (2003): 177-88.
Sierz, Aleks. "Still
In-Yer-Face? Towards a Critique and a Summation." New Theatre Quarterly 18.1 (2002). 17-24.
_____. "'Art Flourishes
in Times of Struggle': Creativity, Funding and New Writing." Contemporary Theatre Review 13.1 (2003):
33-45.
_____. "'Big Ideas' for
Big Stages, 2004." New Theatre
Quarterly 21.1 (2004): 96-98.
_____. "'Me and My
Mates': The State of English Playwriting, 2003." New Theatre Quarterly 20.1 (2004): 79-83.
_____. "Beyond Timidity?
The State of British New Writing." PAJ:
A Journal of Performance and Art 81 (2005). 55-61.
_____. "Can Old Forms Be
Reinvigorated? Radical Populism and New Writing in British Theatre Today."
Contemporary Theatre Review 16.3
(2006): 301-11.
_____. "New Writing
2006." Contemporary Theatre Review
16.3 (2006): 371-3.
_____. "Reality Sucks:
The Slump in British New Writing." PAJ:
A Journal of Performance and Art 89 (2008): 102-7.
Williams, Roy. "What Kind
of England Do We Want?" New Theatre
Quarterly 22.2 (2006): 113-21.
Wroe, Nicholas.
"Courtroom Dramas." The
Guardian 24 July 2004.
Audio
Bassett,
Kate, et al. "Leading London Theatre Critics in the Spotlight." Audio
debate. Backdoor Broadcasting Company
26 Feb. 2010.* (Kate Bassett, Lyn Gardner, Mark Shenton, Ian Shuttleworth).
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/02/leading-london-theatre-critics-in-the-spotlight/
2014
Blogs
The Guardian Theatre Page and Blog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatre
Shenton's View
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton
Theatre blog at the Guardian. (Andy Field)
Internet
resources
British Theatre Guide
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info
Dramaturg's Network
http://ee.dramaturgy.com.uk
In Yer Face Theatre
http://www.inyerface-theatre.com
Modern Theatre and Playwrights Online
http://doollee.com
National Theatre Platform Paper Transcripts
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/8237/platforms/platform-transcripts.html
What's on Stage
http://www.whatsonstage.com
YouTube (TheaterTalk).*
https://www.youtube.com/c/theatertalk/videos
2020
Journals
British Theatre Guide
See also: Edward
Bond; Gregory Burke; David Hare; Kevin Spacey; Tom Stoppard; Richard
Norton-Taylor; Mark Ravenhill; Simon Stephens
See also: Bartlett, Mike; Bean, Richard;
Betts, Kate; Bhatti, Gurpreet; Blythe, Alecky; Brace, Adam; Brittain, Victoria;
Cheeseman, Peter; Crimp, Martin; green, tucker; Harrower, David; Kwei-Armah,
Kwame; Lenkiewicz, Rebecca; McDonagh, Martin; Mitchell, Katie; Neilson,
Anthony; Neilson, Mark; Norton-Taylor, Richard; Soans, Robin; Stenham, Polly; Slovo,
Gillian; Williams, Roy. (Dramatist, member of the "Monsterist"
group); Craig, Ryan. (Dramatist, member of the "Monsterist" group);
Bean, Richard. (Dramatist, member of the "Monsterist" group);
Eldridge, David. (Dramatist, member of the "Monsterist" group);
Companies: 7.84; Cartoon de
Salvo; Filter; Forced Entertainment; Frantic Assembly; Joint Stock; Kneehigh
Theatre; Quarantine Theatre; Nitro; Red Ladder
