Playing for Time: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre

by Geraldine Cousin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $9.33

  Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions. -- .