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Feeling the loss of feminism : Sarah Kane's Blasted and an experiential genealogy of contemporary women's playwriting

This article disinters Blasted, the highly controversial debut play by the late Sarah Kane, from a masculine cult of ?in-yer-face-ism? in order to propose a genealogy of contemporary women’s playwriting on the British stage characterised by an experiential drive to feeling the loss of feminism. Feeling the loss of feminism is traced through millennial women’s playwriting and arrives at politically angry newcomer, debbie tucker green, whose theatre is examined as a savage critique of a world scarred by an acute lack of altruistic feeling for ?others.? The article won the American Society for Theatre Research Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize, awarded at ASTR Montreal, Canada, November 2011.