Talk:In-yer-face theatre

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There are names on the list of In-yer-face playwrights which simply shouldn't be there. Simon Stephens? Naomi Wallace? Give me a break! The only playwrights who really perpetrate this sort of stuff are Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, Jez Butterworth (sort of) and Antony Neilson. Now its very passe. We're looking for something else - something more complex, more human. What thes people slapped onto the stage is happening so much more in the world that we are realising that suffering isn't a game or a spectator sport but something real which we have to deal with, understand, fight, transcend. In-yer-face theatre was a dead-end spawned by the feeling that film (RESERVOIR DOGS etc) and novels (TRAINSPOTTING) etc were leaving theatre looking twee and non-yoof aurientated. That's all.