Table of Contents

Introduction: ‘Treat me as a dead author.’
1. ‘Above all ordinary’: Contexts and critical approaches
2. ‘Fair to cloudy in mid-town Morecambe’: From single play to season of plays
3. Spies and writers: the devil’s work?:
4. ‘If I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go’:Documentaries and autobiography
5. ‘They want to be seen as they see themselves’: Reinventing the monologue
Conclusion: On the Margin

About the Author

Kara McKechnie is Lecturer in Dramaturgy (Theatre and Performance) at the University of Leeds