C. Manzella

“I’m talking about here and now”: self-reflexivity, history, and climate futures in contemporary lecture plays

Sabrina Mahfouz’s A History of Water in the Middle East begins with a self-reflexive passage that establishes the play’s peculiar form, a lecture. Her choice of aesthetic frame and discussion of climate change resonate with an earlier such lecture play at the Royal Court, Stephen Emmott’s Ten Billion . Both aut...