Apocalyptic Narratives in Anglo-American Theatre from Berkoff’s Greek to Ridley’s Eclipse

Abstract

The paper considers several texts (Berkoff’s Greek, Bond’s trilogy, The War Plays, Rosenthal’s L.O.W. in Gaia, Kushner’s Angels in America, Butterworth’s The Night Heron, Ridley’s Mercury Fur and Eclipse, Washburn’s Mr. Burns, and Churchill’s Escaped Alone), written for Anglo-American theatre between 1980 and 2020 to analyse how the rhetoric of decadence and renovation changes with the turn of the millennium.