Modern British Drama. The Twentieth Century

Summary of the article written by Christopher Innes:

Being the most prolific period in English Drama, it's not easy to make a division or to catalogue the Twentieth Century in just one trend but, above all the different movements, it can be said that British Drama became a playwright's theatre. Its function has been constantly redefined, rejecting the logical structures and reason, it becomes more experimental and the object is now to create an effect in the audience, to make them think, to create a debate by criticizing through irony, parody or portraying the reality of a society they want to change. The three main trends of theatre will be then Realism, Comedy and Poetic Drama.

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Rage and Reason. Women Playwrights on Playwriting - Sarah Kane

Summary of the article written by Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge:

In this interview Sarah Kane comes to terms with the critics she receives for putting audiences through a series of depravity acts which she claims to write only because she is representing something that already exists, that theatre can change society and her only responsability as a writer is to the truth, no matter how unpleasant it may be. Infact, she takes herself as the subject of human beings when it comes to violence. She refuses to be a representative of any biological or social group as she just wants to be taken as a writer, and that is how she wants her work to be judged.

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