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Zusatztext For all readers interested in the historical context and significant features of 1990s British theatre! this book provides vivid and comprehensive snapshots of the period and a concise introduction to its playwrights! theatre companies! theatres! funding bodies and preoccupations...a volume that is built upon wide-ranging knowledge and excellent research! is full of original ideas! and enthusiastically engages with Britain's theatre history and culture through the 1990s and in so doing comprises an important introduction to 1990s theatre history and criticism. Informationen zum Autor Aleks Sierz is the theatre critic of Tribune and a freelance theatre reviewer. He is a lecturer in modern British theatre whose seminal study, In-Yer-Face Theatre , defined a new generation of writers and their work. In 2006 Methuen Drama published his guide, The Theatre of Martin Crimp , which was followed up by 2012's Modern British Playwriting: the 1990s . Sierz's journalism has featured in the Sunday Times , the Daily Telegraph and the Independent . He is a widely read, highly regarded critic of modern British theatre. Aleks Sierz FRSA is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College, London, UK, and author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008), Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today (Methuen Drama, 2011) and Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s (Methuen Drama 2012). He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, lecturer and theatre critic. Graham Saunders is a professor of Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written extensively on contemporary British theatre, including three volumes on the work of Sarah Kane, is the author of Patrick Marber's Closer (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2008) and co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008). Catherine Rees is Programme Director for Drama at Loughborough University, UK. TRISH REID is Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, UK. Philip Ridley was born and grew up in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art. He has written many highly regarded and hugely influential stage plays: the seminal The Pitchfork Disney ( now published as a Methuen Modern Classic ) , The Fastest Clock in the Universe (winner of a Time Out Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize ) , Ghost from a Perfect Place , Vincent River (nominated for the London Festival Fringe Best Play Award), the highly controversial Mercury Fur , Leaves of Glass, Piranha Heights (nominated for the WhatsOnStage Mobius Award for Best Off West End Production) , Tender Napalm (nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award), Shivered (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New Play Award), Dark Vanilla Jungle (winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award), Radiant Vermin ( now published as a Methuen Modern Classic ) , Tonight With Donny Stixx, Karagula (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New Play Award), The Beast of Blue Yonder , The Poltergeist (winner of the OffWestEnd OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play) and Tarantula ; plus several plays for young people (collectively known as The Storyteller Sequence ) : Karamazoo, Fairytaleheart, Moonfleec e (named as one of the 50 Best Works About Cultural Diversity by the National Centre for Children's Books), the seminal Sparkleshark (the first of the Connections Festival plays – all written for young people – to be staged professionally by the National Theatre), and Brokenville; al...
