“Everywhere is Warmer than the house”: ‘Traumaculture’ in Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here

Contemporary British theatre is a crucial avenue for staging trauma as provides both the potential of emotional identification and critical perspective. By making use unique possibilities embodied performance, allows safe space in which traumatic suffering can be reconfigured. Drawing on notion Roger Luckhurst’s ‘traumaculture,’ this paper interrogates extent to contemporary playwright Laura Wade’s one-act play, Colder Than Here (2005), situates current experiences within social cultural contexts. This deals with terminal disease increases, familial dysfunction, ecological degradation that permeate daily existence. Therefore, by bringing into spotlight definition traumaculture, aims at exploring how reflects multifaceted engagements onstage focus middle-class English family.