In-Yer-Face Theatre' and the 'Society of Spectacle': The Violence of Progress in Martin Crimp's The Treatment

Abstract

The Treatment was published in 1993, right aftes the fall of Berlín Wall. The tearing down of BerlinWall signified a transition from the social-oriented type of capitalism which has benn practised since the end of the World War TWO, into a tyoe of capitalism which has benn increasingly based on lasissez-faire, neo-liberal policies.