This article examines David Greig’s The Events (2013) and Chris Thorpe’s quasi-verbatim Confirmation (2014), two plays conspicuous for engaging critically and analytically with aspects of extremism motivated by far-right politics. It performs a comparative analysis of both plays and enquires into how each negotiate and interrogate the ideology of the contemporary ethno-nationalist far-right. It offers an interpretation of the plays as urgently topical cultural artefacts that distil the most salient elements of a still inchoate twenty first-century fascism, each engaging with the specific characteristics of extremist racism and anti-liberalism that act as its primary motors in the present political conjuncture in Europe. Furthermore, it also makes the case that the plays can be interpreted in conjunction as offering clear critiques into the way that the contemporary liberal left construes and uses tolerance as a political category, and whether this is an adequate response to twenty-first century fascism.

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大卫格雷格的事件和克里斯索普的确认中的极右和自由宽容的限制

本文考察了 David Greig 的 The Events (2013) 和 Chris Thorpe 的 quasi-verbatim Confirmation (2014)，这两部戏剧在批判性和分析性地涉及极右翼政治动机的极端主义方面方面表现出色。它对两部戏剧进行了比较分析，并探究了每一部戏剧如何协商和审问当代民族民族主义极右翼的意识形态。它将戏剧解释为紧迫的话题性文物，提炼出二十一世纪早期法西斯主义最突出的元素，每一个都与极端种族主义和反自由主义的具体特征有关，这些特征在当今充当其主要动力。欧洲的政治局势。此外，