Dramaturgies of Contagion in Contemporary British Speculative Theatre

This article looks at three contemporary British speculative plays – Dawn King’s Foxfinder (2011), Stef Smith’s Human Animals (2016) and Alistair McDowall’s X (2016) – to show how their approach to the theme of transmission interrogates the simplified forms of contagion based on binary categories su...

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Autor principal:	June Xuandung Pham
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2021
Materias:	dramaturgies of contagion language as contagion outbreak narrative speculative theatre spectrality temporality American literature PS1-3576 English literature PR1-9680
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8714f0a3fe6c4524afa00c42e36f633e2021-12-02T11:27:56ZDramaturgies of Contagion in Contemporary British Speculative Theatre1272-38191969-630210.4000/sillagescritiques.11483https://doaj.org/article/8714f0a3fe6c4524afa00c42e36f633e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/11483https://doaj.org/toc/1272-3819https://doaj.org/toc/1969-6302This article looks at three contemporary British speculative plays – Dawn King’s Foxfinder (2011), Stef Smith’s Human Animals (2016) and Alistair McDowall’s X (2016) – to show how their approach to the theme of transmission interrogates the simplified forms of contagion based on binary categories such as present/absent, before/after, cause/symptom, human/nonhuman. It is my belief that these plays’ conception of contagion, not as a mere epidemiological fact but as a metaphor for disruption and relationality, transformation and conformity, invokes a distinct utopian method of the twenty-first century, which is best characterised by uncertainty.June Xuandung PhamCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"articledramaturgies of contagionlanguage as contagionoutbreak narrativespeculative theatrespectralitytemporalityAmerican literaturePS1-3576English literaturePR1-9680ENFRSillages Critiques, Vol 30 (2021)
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description	This article looks at three contemporary British speculative plays – Dawn King’s Foxfinder (2011), Stef Smith’s Human Animals (2016) and Alistair McDowall’s X (2016) – to show how their approach to the theme of transmission interrogates the simplified forms of contagion based on binary categories such as present/absent, before/after, cause/symptom, human/nonhuman. It is my belief that these plays’ conception of contagion, not as a mere epidemiological fact but as a metaphor for disruption and relationality, transformation and conformity, invokes a distinct utopian method of the twenty-first century, which is best characterised by uncertainty.
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title	Dramaturgies of Contagion in Contemporary British Speculative Theatre
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Dramaturgies of Contagion in Contemporary British Speculative Theatre

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