As COVID-19 disrupts every aspect of global life, contemporary theatre has long predicted a world on the edge. This anthology is a collection of twenty scenes from twenty playwrights, each responding to the world in crisis. Through these varied scenes from plays spanning multiple forms and styles, we see how theatre and art has the capacity to respond to, comment on, and grapple with global challenges that in turn speak to the current time in which we are living. Each scene is prefaced by an interview in which the writer discusses their process, reason for selection and how their work reflects both the past and the present situation. From the interpersonal relationships seen in the scenes of Lucy Prebble and James Graham, to the experimentation with form by Tim Crouch, Alistair McDowall and Anne Washburn, through to the historical dramas of Tanika Gupta, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Hannah Khalil and the social relevance of Simon Stephens and Mojisola Adebayo, this anthology looks at theatre in the present and answers the question: 'how does theatre respond to a world in crisis?' The collection is prefaced by an introduction from Edward Bond, one of contemporary theatre's most prolific dramatists. Book jacket.
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