Table of Contents

Mireia Aragay/Martin Middeke Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction — 1

Mireia Aragay On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot— 15

Enric Monforte Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens'sPornography and Mark Ravenhill’sShoot/Get Treasure/Repeat— 31

Christian Attinger Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley’sMercury Fur— 47

David Kerler Jez Butterworth’sJerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness — 63

Christoph Henke Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch’s The Author—

Cristina Delgado-Garcfa “We’re All in This Together”: Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch’sThe Author— 91

Bettina Auerswald Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans’s Talking to Terrorists — 109

Jos6 R. Prado Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon — 125

Adina Sorian Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment’sTomorrow’s Parties — 141 Veronica Rodriguez Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture — 155

Elzbieta Baraniecka Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly’sLove and Money— 171

Clara Escoda Ethics, Precariousness and the ‘Inclination’ towards the Other in debbie tucker green’sdirty butterfly, Laura Wade’s Posh and Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness — 187

Martin Riedelsheimer Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig’sThe Events — 203

Martin Middeke The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig’sThe Events and Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go — 217

Notes on Contributors — 235

Index — 237