Full length play: Monster-Truck-Parts and essay: Does Monster-Truck-Parts mark the end of ‘new writing’?

[摘要] This dissertation for MPhil(B) Playwriting Studies 2011/2012 consists of a full length play, Monster-Truck-Parts, which explores the lives of three sets of tenants of a council flat. Its concept is to explore the audience perception of time and space, presenting multiple time frames in the same fixed environment. This time frame sparks the creation of several convoluted visual images which encourage the audience to constantly question the situation. Many of these visual images explore the portrayal of violence of brutality and, as a result, further heighten the volatility and confusion which the time frame creates. The accompanying essay places Monster-Truck-Parts within its field of ‘new writing’ and interrogates the play’s originality. With reference to other playwrights and their works, the essay explores the main concepts of the play, time, space, image and violence, and asks whether these ideas progress the field of ‘new writing’ from a period which critics call an unimaginative lull, or do they simply repeat what has come before and do nothing to change the trend that British ‘new writing’ seems to have taken?

[发布机构] University:University of Birmingham;Department:School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies

[关键词] P Language and Literature;PN Literature (General);PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater