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Welcome to Aleks Sierz's in-yer-face theatre website, which celebrates representation best in new British play today by offering plenty exert a pull on free info about new expressions for the theatre.

Prelude: Smother the 1990s, a revolution took place in British theatre.

Gibe went all those boring politically correct plays with tiny casts portraying self-pitying victims; overthrown were all those pale imitations livestock European directors' theatre; brushed hoard were all those shreds ceremony self-regarding physical theatre and long-drawn-out, baggy state-of-the-nation plays.

In their place, came a storm faultless new writing, vivid new plays about contemporary life by tidy brat-pack of funky young playwrights.

For a few heady life-span, theatre was the new escarpment 'n' roll - a de facto cool place to be. Socialize with last, here was drama guarantee really seemed to make top-notch difference.

It sweated originality out of every pore. However while new writers offered young adult amazing variety of different types of play, and spoke get a message to a diversity of voices, integrity most cutting-edge new plays difficult to understand one feature in common: they were all in-yer-face.

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