Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly explores Kelly's unusual career path and sheds light on his eclectic approach to the arts, characterised by a refusal to write texts that people can fit within neat categories.

Aloysia Rousseau is a Senior Lecturer at Sorbonne University, Paris. Her research focuses on Contemporary British Theatre. Rousseau has published Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (2011) and co-edited The Renewal of the Crime Play on the Contemporary Anglophone Stage (2018), Scènes britanniques et irlandaises contemporaines (2021) and The New Wave of British Women Playwrights (2023).

Dedication List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 Life, Career and Key Notions 1 Life and Career 2 Reappraising Assumptions About Kelly's Work PART II Key Works 3 'What Kind of Person Are You?': Probing Human Nature in Love and Money (2006), The Gods Weep (2010) and The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (2013) 4 The Individual and the Collective in Osama the Hero (2005), DNA (2008) and Orphans (2009) 5 Trauma Narratives: Debris (2003), Girls & Boys (2018), After the End (2005) and The Third Day (2020) 6 Kelly's Post-Romanticism Together (2021) and Pulling (2006-2009) PART III Key productions 7 Girls & Boys in Production 8 Matilda the Musical (2010) on stage and screen 9 Utopia's Ethics and Aesthetics Appendix: An Interview with Dennis Kelly