ABSTRACT
The stage earthquake, of course, was the same as when, on 26 October, Quentin Letts published his press review of Hotel Cerise headed, "A muddled bore that sees Trump as likely victor" in the British national newspaper, The Daily Mail. In Ulrich Beck's early "risk society" theory, risk modernity is a third phase of global risk perception, after the earlier "traditional" and "industrial modernity" periods. Theatre actors, directors and actors are fans because they "produce something 'material' which can be passed on to others"; and in Bonnie Greer's case this was as many "others" as possible. Greer believes "that there is a duty in a democratic society to make accessible to all," whether she writes an opera libretto, brings Chekhov to twenty-first-century US politics, or teaches Shakespeare in "the bard's words themselves" to kids in Harlem, New York or Brixton, London.
