Beautiful Doom

Introduction: 'Grimy little people like me': Situating Dennis Kelly - Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden
Part I: Incubation
1 DNA in the classroom: Drama as English exam - Charlotte Bell
2 Suspended in time and place: children and precarious masculinity in Dennis Kelly's Girls & Boys - Marissia Fragkou
3 'I'll teach you a thing or two': Dennis Kelly's 'School Plays' - Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden
Part II: Antibodies
4 'Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?': Watching torture in Dennis Kelly's works - Clare Finburgh Delijani
5 Utopia: Dennis Kelly's 'unworthy' drama - Chris Megson
6 Beautiful doom: The political aesthetic of Utopia - Sam Haddow
7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly's early drama: Towards neoliberalism - Basil Chiasson
Part III: False positives
8 'I just want it to be your words': Problematising verbatim theatre in Dennis Kelly's Taking Care of Baby - Sarah Beck
9 'What is the difference between made up and real?' Narrative, the 'post-truth' era, and Dennis Kelly's The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas - Catherine Love
10 'What else isn't true?', or, Dennis Kelly's expressionism - Mark Robson
11 Atopia: Dennis Kelly, Modernity, and Community - David Pattie
Part IV: Variants
12 'Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?': The art and politics of storytelling in Matilda the Musical - Aloysia Rousseau
13 Dennis Kelly's The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company -Catriona Fallow
14 Performing stories, engaging audiences: Dennis Kelly's narrative aesthetic -Janine Hauthal
Conclusion: 'Your subject matter isn't film, isn't TV, isn't books. It's people, it's real life': An interview with Dennis Kelly - Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden
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