28 October 2013, Sala de Professors, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Seminar title: “Ethics, Precariousness and Contemporary (British) Theatre”

09:30-10:15 Aleks Sierz (Rose Bruford College), “An Ethical Revival? Contemporary New Writing”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary, U. London), “Against Nothing: David Greig’s The Events, Chris Goode’s God/Head and Simon Vincenzi’s Luxuriant: Within the Reign of Anticipation

12:00-12:45 Martin Middeke (U. Augsburg), “The Disavowal of Community in Contemporary British Drama”

13:00-14:30 Lunch and coffee

14:30-14:50 Clara Escoda (U. Barcelona), “Ethics, Precariousness and the ‘Inclination’ to the Other in debbie tucker green’s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade’s Posh and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness

15:00-15:20 José Ramón Prado (U. Jaume I), “Precarious Spectatorship in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man

15:30-15:50 Enric Monforte (U. Barcelona), “Staging Precarity in Simon Stephens’s Pornography and Wastwater