"change ain't fuckin polite, scuse my language": situating debbie tucker green ; debbie tucker green and (the dialects of) dispossession: reframing the ethical encounter / Siân Adiseshiah, Jacqueline Bolton -- Black rage: diasporic empathy and ritual in debbie tucker green's hang / Michael Pearce -- "What about the burn their bra bitches?": debbie tucker green as the willfully emotional subject / Trish Reid -- Enaging with human rights: truth and reconciliation and hang / Harry Derbyshire, Loveday Hodson -- "I'm a black woman, I write black characters": black mothers, the police and social justice in random and hang / Lynette Goddard -- "Almost, but not quite": reading debbie tucker green's dramaturgy inside British playwriting studies / Lucy Tyler -- Yarns and yearnings: story-layering, signifyin' and debbie tucker green's black-feminist anger / Elaine Aston -- Sticking in the throat/keyword bitch: aesthetic discharge in debbie tucker green's stoning mary and hang / Maggie Inchley -- Jumping to (and away from) conclusions: rhythm and temporality in debbie tucker green's drama / David Ian Rabey -- Trading voice and voicing trades: musicality in debbie tucker green's trade / Lea Sawyers -- "Hearing voices" and performing the mind in debbie tucker green's dramatic-poetics / Deirdre Osborne -- Cartographies of silence in debbie tucker green's truth and reconciliation / Elisabeth Massana -- debbie tucker green and the work of mourning / Sam Haddow -- Reflections on hang: Izzy Rabey in conversation wit Siân Adiseshiah and Jacqueline Bolton / Izzy Rabey

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green. Covering the period from 2000 (Two Women) to 2017 (a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)), it offers scholars and students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge critical debate engendered by tucker green's innovative dramatic works for stage, television, and radio. This groundbreaking book includes contributions by a range of outstanding scholars, including black playwriting specialists, world-leading contemporary theatre scholars and some of the very best emerging researchers in the field. While always focused on the precision and detail of tucker green's work, this book simultaneously reframes broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, poses new questions of theatre, and provokes scholarly thinking in ways that, however obliquely, contribute to the change for which the plays agitate