The ''Wind of Change'' Blowing Through the British and Egyptian Theatres: A Study of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Nihad Gad's On the Pavement

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The Cold War, the fall of Berlin Wall, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union ushered in the demise of Communism and the beginning of a new era. Massive changes swept along both Britain and Egypt resulting in the dismantling of old Socialist regimes and the emergence of new ones that adopt different policies. The Egyptian and British theatres were ready to capture that moment in such a turbulent era. The paper shows how Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Nihad Gad's On the Pavement depict the causes and results of the moral, economic and political decline in a world that has become a large marketplace. It, in addition, reveals that though emerging as a response to certain political and economic measures practised by their governments in Britain and Egypt, both plays are timeless in their condemnation of the greed and evil of this world. That both plays support the effective role of the theatre as a ''platform for national debate'' and that they, in spite of having the same vision, adopt different techniques are also among the aims this paper illuminates

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