New Perspectives on Home: Simon Stephens and Authorship in British Theatre

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Notes

1. Simon Stephens, ‘Skydiving Blindfolded, or Five Things I Learned from Sebastian Nübling’, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, 8 May 2011 <http://www.theatertreffen-blog.de/tt11/artikel-zu/stueckemarkt/skydiving-blindfolded/> [accessed 27 March 2014].

2. Ibid.

3. Simon Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.

4. See Jacqueline Bolton, ‘Capitalizing (on) New Writing: New Play Development in the 1990s’, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 32.2 (2012), 209–25.

5. Ibid., p. 209.

6. Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today (London: Methuen Drama, 2011), pp. 44, 50.

7. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.

8. Stephens, ‘Skydiving Blindfolded’.

9. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.

10. Simon Stephens, ‘Introduction’, Plays 2 (London: Methuen Drama, 2009), p. xix.

11. Andrew Haydon, ‘Blindsided’, Postcards from the Gods, 3 February 2014 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/blindsided-manchester-royal-exchange.html> [accessed 3 April 2014].

12. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.

13. Stephens, ‘Introduction’, p. xix.

14. Simon Stephens, Pornography, in Plays 2 (London: Methuen Drama, 2009), p. 214.

15. Stephens, ‘Introduction’, p. xix.

16. Stephens, Pornography, p. 215.

17. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.

18. Simon Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 16 November 2012.

19. Ibid.

20. Michael Billington, ‘Three Kingdoms – Review’, Guardian, 9 May 2012 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/may/09/three-kingdoms-review> [accessed 3 April 2014].

21. Henry Hitchings, ‘Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith – Review’, Evening Standard, 9 May 2012 <http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/three-kingdoms-lyric-hammersmith–review-7727877.html> [accessed 3 April 2014].

22. Maddy Costa, ‘Three Kingdoms: The Shape of British Theatre to Come?’, Guardian, 16 May 2012 <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2012/may/16/three-kingdoms-shape-british-theatre-or-flop> [accessed 3 April 2014].

23. Dan Rebellato, ‘Three Kingdoms’, n.d. <http://www.danrebellato.co.uk/spilledink/2013/3/12/three-kingdoms> [accessed 3 April 2014].

24. Ibid.

25. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 16 November 2012.

26. Stephens, ‘Introduction’, p. xxii.

27. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 16 November 2012.

28. Ibid.

29. Jacqueline Bolton, ‘Simon Stephens’, in Modern British Playwriting: 2000–2009: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations, ed. by Dan Rebellato (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013), pp. 101–24 (p. 105).

30. Dan Rebellato, ‘Exit the Author’, in Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground, ed. by Vicky Angelaki (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 9–31.

31. Stephens, Pornography, p. 222.

32. Stephens, Three Kingdoms (London: Methuen Drama, 2012), p. 98.

33. Stephens, ‘Preface’, in Three Kingdoms, p. i, emphasis in original.

34. Andrew Haydon, ‘“Properly” Revisited’, Postcards from the Gods, 27 January 2014 <http://postcardsgods.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/properly-revisited.html> [accessed 3 April 2014].

35. Simon Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2012.

36. Jen Harvie, Staging the UK (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), p. 114.

37. Ibid., pp. 114–15.

38. Bolton, ‘Capitalizing (on) New Writing’, p. 221.

39. Bolton, ‘Simon Stephens’, p. 121.

40. Rebellato, ‘Exit the Author’, p. 25.

41. Simon Stephens, ‘Political Theatre Salon’, Actors & Performers, 21 November 2013 <https://www.actorsandperformers.com/actors/advice/128/training-and-skills/professional-skills/political theatre salon parts one and two> [accessed 10 April 2012].

42. David Lane, Contemporary British Drama (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), pp. 33–36.

43. W. B. Worthen, Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 4.

44. Simon Stephens, quoted in Duška Radosavljević, Theatre-Making: Interplay between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) p. 118.

45. Ibid.

46. Stephens, unpublished interview with the author, 12 February 2014.