The sheer variety of British new writing means that refracting plays through the prism of national identity, as Aleks Sierz's new book does, feels blinkeredPick a play " any play written in the last decade " and the chances are Aleks Sierz could offer an interpretation about how it refracts national identity. Mike Bartlett's Cock would be a portrait of an uncertain, indecisive Britain, endlessly caught between two po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PM on March 22, 2011