A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama

pt. I. National politics and identities.; Europe in flux : exploring revolution and migration in British plays of the 1990s /; Geoff Willcocks

; 'I'll see you yesterday' : Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the captivating past /; Claire Gleitman

; Black British drama and the politics of identity /; D. Keith Peacock

; Northern Irish drama : speaking the peace /; Tom Maguire

; pt. II. Sites, cities and landscapes.; The production of 'site' : site-specific theatre /; Fiona Wilkie

; Staging an urban nation : place and identity in contemporary Welsh theatre /; Heike Roms

; The landscape of contemporary Scottish drama : place, politics and identity /; Nadine Holdsworth

; pt. III. The body, text and the real.; The body's cruel joke : the comic theatre of Sarah Kane /; Ken Urban

; Physical theatre : complicite and the question of authority /; Helen Freshwater

; Verbatim theatre, media relations, and ethics /; Mary Luckhurst

; pt. IV. Science, ethics and new technologies.; Theatre and science /; David Higgins

; From the state of the nation to globalization : shifting political agendas in contemporary British playwriting /; Dan Rebellato

; Theatre for a media-saturated age /; Sarah Gorman.