Introduction (Camilla Whitehill's Mr Incredible ) 'Staging the Systemic': Context and Methodology Unspectacular: The Representation of Violence in 2010s British Theatre and Mr Incredible Overview Chapter One: Violence (Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone ) Tea and Catastrophe: Churchill in the 2010s The Necessary Difficulty of Defining Violence: Arendt, Sontag, and Escaped Alone Making Invisible Violence Visible: Evans, Giroux, zizek, and Escaped Alone Violence and 'Truth': Butler, Nancy, and Escaped Alone Conclusion Chapter Two: Performativity (Lulu Raczka and Barrel Organ's Some People Talk About Violence and Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter ) Theatrical Strategies and Reality-Making: Perspectives on Performativity and Theatre Injurious Speech: The Violence of Performativity and Some People Talk About Violence Oppressive Recitation: The Performativity of Violence and A Very Very Very Dark Matter Conclusion Chapter Three: Protest (Chris Thorpe's There Has Possibly Been An Incident and debbie tucker green's ear for eye ) (Ir)relevancy and (Il)legitimacy in the Public Sphere: Protest, Theatre, and (Non)Violence Nonviolent Progress/Revolutionary Change: Witnessing Black Witnessing in ear for eye Conclusion Chapter Four: Climate Crisis (Ella Hickson's Oil, Duncan Macmillan's Lungs, and Lucy Kirkwood's The Children) The Violent Performativity of Resource Exploitation: Magic Realism and Perspective in Oil Dramaturgies of 2010s British CCT: Domesticity, Cli-Fi, Posthumanism, and Materiality Performative Taxonomical Violence: The Slow Theatre of The Children Conclusion Chapter Five: Brexit and Neoliberalism (Rose Lewenstein's Cougar , Alistair McDowall's Pomona and Simon Stephens's Three Kingdoms ) Apocalypse and Dystopia: Theatrical Visions of 2010s British Neoliberalism Empty Europe: Cross-Cultural British-European Theatre and Dramaturgies of Violence Conclusion Chapter Six: Brexit and Racism (Anders Lustgarten's Lampedusa , Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath , and Somalia Nonyé Seaton's Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier ) Europeanness and the Other: Lampedusa and How to Hold Your Breath Racism and British Identity: Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier Conclusion Chapter Seven: Gender-Based Violence (Katherine Chandler's Bird and Jasmine Lee-Jones's seven methods of killing kylie jenner ) The Performative 'Reality' of Gender-Based Violence: Fluid Realism and Bird Breaking (Violent) Forms: Realism-without-truth and seven methods of killing kylie jenner Conclusion Conclusion (Travis Alabanza's Burgerz ) Violence and Performativity in 2010s British Theatre: Three Contentions The Power of Performativity: Showing Structural Violence and Burgerz Concluding Remarks Works Cited Appendix: List of Performances Bibliography Index.