Beautiful doom

Dennis Kelly's award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms genres and media from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning <i>Matilda the Musical</i> (2010) to the Channel Four cult-classic series <i>Utopia</i>. His 2008 play <i>DNA</i> written for National Theatre Connections is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. This collection of essays written by leading scholars teachers and practitioners of theatre provides the first multi-authored study of Kelly's critically acclaimed oeuvre. Featuring an original interview with Kelly himself this volume captures the full range and scope of his writing for stage and screen from the quirky fringe debut <i>Debris </i>(2003) to the globally-distributed film adaptation of <i>Matilda the Musical</i> (2022).