Graham Saunders lectures in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (Manchester: MUP, 2002), Patrick Marber’s Closer (Continuum, 2008), About Kane (Faber, 2009) and co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008). He is also a series editor for Continuum’s Modern Theatre Guides. He has contributed articles on contemporary British and Irish drama to journals including Modern Drama, Journal of Beckett Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Research International, New Theatre Quarterly and Studies in Theatre and Performance.