Status Updates From Modern Drama: A Very Short ...

What seems like a race toward the 21st century, the decades from the postwar period into our postmodern and postliterate age are crammed with playwrights trying to assert their bold new thoughts while searching for slivers of the spotlight between the long shadows of Brecht, Artaud and other modernists. That many of these names are vaguely familiar, except in my case Stoppard, argues that theatre is now postidentity.