Martin Crimp by Angelaki, Vicky; Angel-Perez, Élisabeth; Escoda, Clara;

Long description:

This edited collection reflects on British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) and his remarkable and multifaceted career in theatre and opera, offering an interdisciplinary, collaborative and internationalist analysis of one of the most unique authorial voices globally in the recent and contemporary period. While taking stock of Crimp’s output across different theatre and performance genres as well as cultural and production contexts, the volume’s contributors are motivated not merely by looking back, but by strongly engaging with the present and future of this extraordinary writer.

The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Élisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp’s writing and process.

Table of Contents:

Martin Crimp: Timeline of Work

Aleks Sierz

Preface

Vicky Angelaki, Élisabeth Angel-Perez and Clara Escoda

Three Attempted Acts (In Lieu of Introduction)

The Vanishing Point

Vicky Angelaki

Portrait of the Writer as an Author

Élisabeth Angel-Perez

Martin Crimp’s Women: Towards a Revolutionary Universality

Clara Escoda

1. Martin Crimp – Addressing Today’s Challenges

‘Sequences of Magic Rooms’: The Writer in His Own Words

Aleks Sierz and Martin Crimp

‘What Use to Me Is a Rusting Spike?’: Gender Performativity and Fluidity of Desire in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019)

Clara Escoda

Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Martin Crimp’s Cruel and Tender and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema

Vicky Angelaki

In the Nightmare of Neoliberalism: Happiness as a Neoliberal Tool of Control in Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness

Albert Méndez Panadés

2. Martin Crimp – The Concept of Community

Martin Crimp in the Company of European Nobel Laureates Jon Fosse and Elfriede Jelinek: A Comparison

Mary Mazzilli

‘I begin to wonder if the whole thing might not just possibly be endless’: Martin Crimp’s Aesthetic and Ethical Probing of the Dramatic Medium in Not One of These People

Aloysia Rousseau

The Wizard Behind the Curtain: The Writer and the Written in the Work of Martin Crimp

Liz Tomlin

3. Martin Crimp – Found in Translation

Making Room for Music: Crimp’s Operatic Dramaturgy

Élisabeth Angel-Perez

Writing for Translation: Martin Crimp’s Invitation to Translate

Geraldine Brodie

Traces of Martin Crimp on the Italian Stage

Andrea Peghinelli

Martin Crimp: Millennial Challenge for the Greek Stage

Elizabeth Sakellaridou