1st Edition

Property and Finance on the Post-Brexit London Stage We Want What You Have

By Michael Meeuwis Copyright 2021
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the city’s performance spaces following the Brexit vote. Austerity-era London theatre is suffused with the belief that private ownership defines full citizenship, its perspective narrowing to what an affluent audience might find relatable. From pub theatres to the National, Michael... Read more

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Chapter 1 Typical Girls; or, the Privately-Owned Punk Squat

Chapter 2 Brexit’s Dispossessed

Chapter 3 Transnationalism

Chapter 4 Village Feel

Chapter 5 Croydon vs. the World: Malteaser Threesomes and Entrepreneurial Sweatshirts in the Shadow of Grenfell

Chapter 6 Yerma on the Internet

Conclusion: Wanting More

Afterword: Estate of the Nation, Jerusalem to Albion

Index

Biography

Michael Meeuwis is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. He is a literary historian of the British eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, with an ongoing interest in theatre and performance; or, a theatre historian with a side hustle in literature.