Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre
ISBN: 9780203494851
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Arts; Theatre & Performance Studies; Drama; History of Performance;

The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays for The Handmaid's Tale and The Trial, Theatrical Prison Projects and Marat/Sade. Kimball King, Thomas Fahy, Rena Fraden, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Fiona Mills, Harold Pinter, Ann C. Hall, Christopher C. Hudgins, Pamela Cooper, Robert F. Gross, Claudia Barnett, Lois Gordon


Thomas Fahy is Lecturer in English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He resides in Shell Beach, California. Kimball King is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He resides in Chapel Hill, NC.
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