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Contemporary European Playwrights Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analysing plays in production by some of the most widely performed European playwrights, assessing how their work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they move across the continent, building an unprecedented pic- ture of the contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring play- wrights together to examine their work as part of a network and genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting relationships between the subsidised and commercial, the alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of playmaking in European theatre since 1989. Maria M. Delgado is Professor of Theatre and Screen Arts at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. Her pub- lications include ‘Other’ Spanish Theatres (2003, revised Spanish-language edi- tion, 2017), Federico García Lorca (2008) and ten co-edited volumes. Bryce Lease is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies at Royal Hollo- way, University of London, UK and Co-Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. His publications include After '89: Polish Theatre and the Political (2016) and A History of Polish Theatre (2021). Dan Rebellato is a playwright and Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. His publications include 1956 and All That (1999), Theatre and Globalization (2009), and the Cambridge Compa- nions to British Theatre 1945 and Contemporary British Plays and Playwriting (2020). Contemporary European Playwrights Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease and Dan Rebellato Firstpublished2020 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2020selectionandeditorialmatter,MariaM.Delgado,BryceLeaseand DanRebellato;individualchapters,thecontributors TherightofMariaM.Delgado,BryceLeaseandDanRebellatotobe identifiedastheauthorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheir individualchapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordancewithsections77and78 oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithout intenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Delgado,MariaM.,editor.|Lease,Bryce,editor.|Rebellato, Dan,editor. Title:ContemporaryEuropeanplaywrights/editedbyMariaM.Delgado, BryceLeaseandDanRebellato. Description:Abingdon,Oxon;NewYork:Routledge2020.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020001676(print)|LCCN2020001677(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:Europeandrama--21stcentury--Themesandmotives.| Theater--Europe--History--21stcentury.|Theaterandsociety--Europe-- History--21stcentury.|Literatureandsociety--Europe--History-- 21stcentury.|Dramatists,European--21stcentury. Classification:LCCPN1861.2C662020(print)|LCCPN1861.2(ebook)| DDC809.2/051--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020001676 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020001677 ISBN:978-1-138-08421-6(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-08422-3(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-11194-0(ebk) TypesetinBembo byTaylor&FrancisBooks Contents List of figures viii Acknowledgements x List of contributors xii Foreword xvii TIAGORODRIGUES Introduction 1 MARIAM.DELGADO,BRYCELEASEANDDANREBELLATO 1 European playwriting and politics, 1945–89 21 DANREBELLATO 2 Elfriede Jelinek and Werner Schwab: Heimat critique and dissections of right-wing populism and xenophobia 44 KARENJÜRS-MUNBY 3 Weronika Szczawin´ska and Agnieszka Jakimiak: Dramaturg as a figure of transition 66 BRYCELEASE 4 András Visky and Matéi Visniec: Challenging boundaries of cultural specificity 76 JOZEFINAKOMPORALY 5 Lars Norén and Jon Fosse: Nordic grey or theatre innovators? 95 RIKARDHOOGLAND 6 Martin Crimp and Simon Stephens: British playwrights as European playwrights 112 DAVIDBARNETT vi Contents 7 Marius von Mayenburg and Roland Schimmelpfennig: Dissecting European lives under global capitalism 129 PETERM.BOENISCH 8 Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill: The ‘blood and sperm’ generation 150 ANDREWHAYDON 9 Vasilii Sigarev and the Presniakov Brothers: Staging the new Russia 168 NOAHBIRKSTED-BREEN 10 Paweł Demirski and Dorota Masłowska: Painful pasts, transformative presents 185 BRYCELEASE 11 Jordi Galceran and Juan Mayorga: Unravelling the present, narrativising the past 203 MARIAM.DELGADO 12 Ivan Vyrypaev and Natalia Vorozhbyt: Language, memory, and cultural mythology in Russian and Ukrainian new drama 226 MOLLYFLYNN 13 Enda Walsh and Martin McDonagh: Reimagining Irish theatre 244 PATRICKLONERGAN 14 Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller: The art of success 261 DOMINICGLYNN 15 Lena Kitsopoulou and Yannis Mavritsakis: Greek theatre at the antipodes of crisis 277 ELIZABETHSAKELLARIDOU 16 Emma Dante and Fausto Paravidino: Families, national identity, and international audiences 296 MARGHERITALAERA 17 Biljana Srbljanovic´ and Ivana Sajko: Voice in the place of silence 313 DUŠKARADOSAVLJEVIC´ 18 debbie tucker green and Alice Birch: ‘Angry feminists’ on the European stage 334 MARISSIAFRAGKOU 19 Peter Handke: Inhabiting the world together 352 HANS-THIESLEHMANN Contents vii 20 Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Writing out of the binary 364 BRYCELEASE 21 Marie NDiaye: Eliding capture 374 KÉLINAGOTMAN Afterword: The constructed space 389 DAVIDGREIG Index 401 Figures 2.1 Werner Schwab’s ÜBERGEWICHT, unwichtig: UNFORM – Ein Europäisches Abendmahl (OVERWEIGHT, unimportant: MISSHAPE – A European Supper), directed by Johannes Lepper (2017) at Schauspiel Dortmund. Photograph © Birgit Hupfeld 53 3.1 Agnieszka Jakimiak’s Hitchcock,directed by Weronika Szczawin´ska (2017), at the Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Photograph © Nejc Saje 72 4.1 András Visky’s Juliet, directed by Boian Ivanov at ‘Sava Ognyanov’ State Drama Theatre Ruse, Bulgaria (2016). Photograph © Boian Ivanov 82 5.1 JonFosse’sBarnet (The Child), directed byJohannes Holmen Dahl at Dramaten Stockholm (2015). Photograph © Roger Stenberg 108 6.1 Simon Stephens’ Three Kingdoms, directed by Sebastian Nübling at the Lyric Hammersmith, London (2012). Photograph © Tristam Kenton 123 7.1 Marius von Mayenburg’s production of his own Ein Stück Plastik (Plastic) at the Schaubühne Berlin (2015). Photograph © Arno Declair 143 8.1 Sarah Kane’s Zerbombt (Blasted) at the Schaubühne Berlin (2005) directed by Thomas Ostermeier. Photograph © Arno Declair 155 9.1 Kirill Serebrennikov’s 2004 production of the Presniakov Brothers’ Izobrazhaia zhertvu (Playing the Victim) at the Chekhov Moscow Arts Theatre, Moscow, 2004. Photograph © Oleg Chernous 176 10.1 GrzegorzJarzyna’sproductionofDorotaMasłowska’sInniludzie (OtherPeople)attheTRWarszawa,Warsaw(2019).Photograph© MarcinOlivaSoto 197 11.1 Juan Mayorga’s El chico de la última fila (The Boy at the Back), directed by Andrés Lima at the Sala Beckett, Barcelona (2019). Photograph © Kiku Piñol 217 12.1 Natalia Vorozhbyt’s Viy 2.0, directed by Maksym Holenko (2016) at Wild Theatre in Kyiv. Photograph © Gala Lavrinets 240 List of illustrations ix 13.1 Ballyturk (2014) written and directed by Enda Walsh; Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival. Photograph © Patrick Redmond 256 14.1 Miguel del Arco’s production of Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’ at the Pavón Teatro Kamikaze, Madrid (2017). Photograph © Vanessa Rabade 266 15.1 Vitriol by Yannis Mavritsakis, directed by Olivier Py (2013) at the National Theatre of Greece. Photograph © Marilena Stafylidou 289 16.1 Boala Familiei M (M Family Illness) by Fausto Paravidino, directed by Radu Afrim at the Teatrul National Timi¸soara (2008). Photograph © Radu Afrim 303 17.1 Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, written, directed, and performed by Ivana Sajko (2010). Photograph © Dražen Smaranduj 319 18.1 debbie tucker green’s stoning mary, directed by Marianne Elliott at the Royal Court Theatre, London (2005). Photograph © Tristram Kenton 339 21.1 André Engel’s production of Marie NDiaye’s Papa doit manger at the Comédie-Française, Paris (2003). Photograph © Cosimo Mirco Magliocca 378 22.1 The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus, adapted by David Greig and directed by Ramin Gray at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh (2016) Photograph © Stephen Cummiskey 391

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