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Criticising Capitalism in the City and on the Stage: The City Street Movement Occupy Wall Street and Tim Price’s Protest Song 批判城市和舞台上的资本主义:“占领华尔街”运动和蒂姆·普莱斯的抗议歌曲

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0009

Christine Schwanecke

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Walkshop Paris: Notes on a Creative Process with the Urban Landscape Walkshop Paris:关于城市景观创作过程的笔记

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0013

Francis Wilker, Glauber Coradesqui, Verônica Veloso

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The Impossibility of Fleeing: The Deconstruction of Urban Space in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living 逃亡的不可能：玛乔克《生活成本》中的城市空间解构

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0007

Anna Bendrat

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Punchdrunk’s Kabeiroi: Taking Immersive Theatre to the Streets Punchdrunk的Kabeiroi:将沉浸式戏剧带到街头

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0002

Déborah Prudhon

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Interrelating Necrocities and Borderscapes in the Migration Performances The Jungle, Lampedusa, and The Walk 迁徙表演中相互关联的墓地和边缘猿丛林、兰佩杜萨和漫步

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0006

Elisabeth Knittelfelder

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A Sense of Place: Staging Psychogeographies of the UK Housing Crisis 地方感：英国住房危机的分期心理地理学

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2023-0005

Jen Harvie

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Anja Hartl. Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today. London: Methuen, 2021, vii + 192 pp., £80.00 (hardback), £72.00 (EPUB/Mobi ebook), £72.00 (PDF ebook). 安贾·哈特尔。布莱希特与90年代后的英国戏剧：今天的辩证戏剧。伦敦：Methuen，2021，vii+192页，80.00英镑（精装本），72.00英镑（EPUB/Mobi电子书），72.0英镑（PDF电子书）。

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0027

Harry Derbyshire

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Selina Busby. Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia. London: Methuen Drama, 2022, xv + 247 pp., £72.00 (hardback), £22.49 (paperback), £57.60 (PDF ebook). 塞琳娜巴斯比。应用戏剧:乌托邦的教育学。伦敦:Methuen Drama, 2022, xv + 247页，72.00英镑(精装本)，22.49英镑(平装本)，57.60英镑(PDF电子书)。

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0029

T. Prentki

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“Through the Pen to Begin with”: Anticolonial Resistance in Tanika Gupta’s Adaptation of Great Expectations “从笔开始”:塔尼卡·古普塔《远大前程》改编中的反殖民抵抗

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0022

Marlena Tronicke

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Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2021, 221 pp., £80 (hardback), £75 (PDF ebook). 伊恩·沃德。英国现代戏剧中的法律戏剧。爱丁堡：爱丁堡UP，2021，221页，80英镑（精装本），75英镑（PDF电子书）。

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0028

S. Fiorato

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