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Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today

This commissioned survey of the field of British new writing in the first decade of the new millennium is based on research, interviews, reading playscripts and watching plays in performance, it examines the most significant of the 3000 or so new plays that were premiered in these years. As well as showing how they were part of a conversation about national identity, it locates them in the institutional context of British new writing. It is supported by two books edited by the author, with Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer (co-eds), 'The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights', London: Methuen Drama (2011). ISBN: 978 1 4081 2278 5, which includes his original chapter on Jez Butterworth, and the edited 'The Methuen Drama Book of Twenty-First Century British Plays', London: Methuen, 2010. ISBN: 978 1 408 10678-5. 'Rewriting the Nation' is also based on material — especially interviews with playwrights such as debbie tucker green, Simon Stephens and Dennis Kelly — gathered during the author’s work for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Soho Theatre.