Rethinking character in contemporary British theatre: aesthetics, politics, subjectivity - 26

This volumeoffers a timely critique of the discourse on the dissolution of character in contemporary theatre.

Proposing theatrical character as a malleable notion whereby understandings of subjectivity are negotiated,Delgado-Garcíastretches the term to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects and political gestures in experimental, script-led contemporary works.