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The second half of the twentieth century is under the influence of the Theatre Period, which contains different and shocking tragedies of game writers like Edward Bond, Mark Ravenhill and Sarah Kane. In the context of contemporary English playwriting, with the performances of Martin Crimp, Simon Stephens and Tim Crouch, the verbal and political theater took place in the early twenty-first century. Tim Crouch, one of the prominent contemporary play writers that spread his fame to both Britain and Europe, has contributed greatly to contemporary British theatre along with his experimental and post-dramatic games. This study deals with Tim Crouch's violent, shocking and annoying game The Author (Author) in the context of active questioning, audience participation, reaction and responsibility in contemporary theatre. The game offers a critical link to the audience experience to problematize the different uses of sound and speech in contemporary performance. This contemporary performance aims to the active participation of the audience and reminds the responsibility of the public by sending what the terminology and famous title of Roland Barthes "The Author's Death" is.

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