English Theatre and Social Abjection A Divided Nation

Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences?

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English Theatre and Social Abjection A Divided Nation Nadine Holdsworth

Contemporary Performance InterActions

Series Editors Elaine Aston Lancaster University Lancaster, Lancashire, UK Brian Singleton Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Theatre’s performative InterActions with the politics of sex, race and class, with questions of social and political justice, form the focus of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series. Performative InterActions are those that aspire to affect, contest or transform. International in scope, CPI publishes monographs and edited collections dedicated to the InterActions of contemporary practitioners, performances and theatres located in any world context.

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Nadine Holdsworth

English Theatre and Social Abjection A Divided Nation

Nadine Holdsworth School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures University of Warwick Coventry, UK

Contemporary Performance InterActions ISBN 978-1-137-59776-2 ISBN 978-1-137-59777-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59777-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Alessio Paratore—Photojournalism/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom

This book is dedicated to my son Corin’s generation —be bold, demand better.

Acknowledgments

The process of writing this book has been a long one, with bumps along the way, but many people have helped me to finally g