The Theatre of debbie tucker green: A Dramaturgy of the Border

• Enric Monforte ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 319-332
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper approaches some of the plays by black British playwright debbie tucker green in order to examine how they can be considered to effect a dramaturgy of the border as well as to study how their different representational practices might contribute to her consideration among the most relevant voices in 21st-century British theatre, a voice which can be said to have inherited the tenets of postdramatic theatre, combined with strong ethical and political concerns. Written from a minority position both in terms of gender and race, tucker green’s plays examine contemporary societies froma new theatrical angle: such is the case of stoning mary (2005) and generations (2007) — fierce denunciations of the ordeals suffered by Africa at many levels — or random (2008), in which she deals with the issue of racial violence directly affecting black communitiesin Britain through the portrayal of the devastating effects of the fortuitous murder of a black teenager. By bearing these and other of her plays in mind, it can be contended that her work offers an undeniably ethical/political view of «reality», a view which hasinherited the rich tradition of British political theatre and which in tucker green’s plays is shown through the denunciation of some of the injustices afflicting both first — and third-world countries. However, and significantly so, at a theatrical level her politicallycharged dissections of society are effected through the use of new representational trends that constantly test their own boundaries in a continuous renegotiation of form.