The Full Room

by Dominic Dromgoole

Overview

In this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama, Dominic Dromgoole, one of Britain's most innovative young directors, celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today

All the way from A-Z, Dromgoole's engaging and provocative short essays include his thoughts on Sebastian Barry, Edward Bond, April de Angelis, Pam Gems, David Hare, Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, Harold Pinter, Mark Ravenhill, and many, many more. Intelligent, partisan, enthusiastic and always illuminating, this is an insider's guide to the key shapers of theatre over the last decade, and essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre."We are living in the middle of a carnival, a free festival, a fête, a flower show, a harvest home, a steam fair, a rock festival, a grand glorious tender wild burst of new plays." Dominic Dromgoole

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413772305
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/11/2001
Series:	Plays and Playwrights
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Sam Adamson	1
	John Arden	3
	David Ashton	5
	Alan Ayckbourn	8
	Biyi Bandele	11
	Howard Barker	13
	Sebastian Barry	16
	Alan Bennett	20
	Simon Bent	22
	Steven Berkoff	25
	Simon Block	28
	Edward Bond	30
	Howard Brenton	34
	Lesley Bruce	39
	Jez Butterworth	41
	Richard Cameron	44
	Marina Carr	48
	Jim Cartwright	49
	Caryl Churchill	52
	Jane Coles	55
	Ray Cooney	57
	Lucinda Coxon	58
	Martin Crimp	61
	Mike Cullen	64
	Kate Dean	66
	April De Angelis	68
	David Edgar	71
	Helen Edmunson	77
	David Eldridge	79
	Ben Elton	81
	Kevin Elyot	83
	Peter Flannery	85
	Brad Fraser	87
	Michael Frayn	88
	Brian Friel	91
	Christopher Fry	92
	Athol Fugard	94
	William Ganimara	96
	Lucy Gannon	97
	Pam Gems	99
	Peter Gill	101
	John Godber	104
	Murray Gold	106
	Simon Gray	110
	Trevor Griffiths	113
	Nick Grosso	117
	John Guare	119
	Lee Hall	121
	Christopher Hampton	123
	Chris Hannan	125
	David Hare	128
	Tony Harrison	134
	David Harrower	136
	Jonathan Harvey	140
	Robert Holman	145
	Declan Hughes	148
	Catherine Johnson	151
	Judith Johnson	154
	Terry Johnson	155
	Charlotte Jones	159
	Sarah Kane	161
	Charlotte Keatley	166
	Barrie Keefe	168
	Franz Xavier Kroetz	170
	Tony Kushner	173
	Tracy Letts	175
	Doug Lucie	178
	Roy MacGregor	180
	Frank MacGuinness	184
	Conor McPherson	186
	David Mamet	190
	Patrick Marber	193
	Martin McDonagh	197
	Arthur Miller	201
	Adrian Mitchell	204
	Gary Mitchell	206
	John Mortimer	208
	Gregory Motton	209
	Jimmy Murphy	211
	Tom Murphy	212
	Phyllis Nagy	214
	Anthony Neilson	215
	Tamsin Oglesby	218
	John Osborne	219
	Joe Penhall	221
	Winsome Pinnock	223
	Harold Pinter	225
	Stephen Poliakoff	229
	David Rabe	231
	Mark Ravenhill	235
	Yasmina Reza	239
	Philip Ridley	240
	Billy Roche	242
	Peter Shaffer	246
	Sam Shepard	248
	Jack Shepherd	251
	Shelagh Stephenson	252
	James Stock	254
	Tom Stoppard	257
	David Storey	262
	Judith Thompson	269
	Naomi Wallace	270
	Nick Ward	273
	Keith Waterhouse	276
	Irvine Welsh	277
	Arnold Wesker	281
	Peter Whelan	284
	August Wilson	286
	Snoo Wilson	288
	Charles Wood	291
	Nick Wright	295
	Richard Zajdlic	298
	Afterword to the 2002 edition	300