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Back to the Future: Gendering the Economy in Twenty-First-Century Drama

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Taking theatrical responses to the financial crisis of 2007–8 as a prompt, Owen examines the mediation of neoliberal economic transformation in four plays – David Eldridge’s Market Boy (2006), Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money (2006), Lucy Prebble’s Enron (2009) and David Hare’s The Power of Yes (2009) – two of which were developed before the emergence of the crisis. Through a close analysis of the plays on the page and in performance, she theorizes the plays’ shared recourse to constructs of gender and sexuality to dramatize economic concerns.

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  1. Department of English and Humanities, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

    Louise Owen

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  1. School of English and Journalism, University of Lincoln , Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Siân Adiseshiah

  2. Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading , Reading, United Kingdom

    Louise LePage

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Owen, L. (2016). Back to the Future: Gendering the Economy in Twenty-First-Century Drama. In: Adiseshiah, S., LePage, L. (eds) Twenty-First Century Drama. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1_6

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