Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance demand new approaches and sensibilities.
New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has been transformed.
Edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane, New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice provides an unrivalled resource for practitioners, scholars, and students.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
New dramaturgy: A post-mimetic, intercultural, process-conscious paradigm Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Towards a New Theory
1 Dramaturgy in 'Postdramatic ' Times Joseph Danan
2 Dramaturgy as Ecology: A Report from The Dramaturgies Project Peter Eckersall, Paul Monaghan and Melanie Beddie
3 Respect and Perspective: Art, Structure and Ownership Alan Lawrence
Part 2 Text
4 Telling Stories Across Forms: Interview with Brian Quirt (artistic director, Nightswimming, Toronto) Yolanda Ferrato
5 Towards Performed Dramaturgy Duka Radosavljevic
6 Disruption as Revealing the Essence of Truth Gad Kaynar in conversation with Ruth Kanner
Part 3 Devising
7 The Feeling of Devising: Emotion and Mind in the Devising Process Jackie Smart
8 ' A Way of Listening' : Interview with John Collins (artistic director, Elevator Repair Service, New York) Ana Pais
9 The Appliance of Science: Devising, Dramaturgy and the Alternative Science Play Alex Mermikides
Part 4 Dance
10 Time and a Mirror: Towards a Hybrid Dramaturgy for Intercultural-Indigenous Performance Rachael Swain
11 Going 'Au-del à': A Journey into the Unknown. Reflections of a Choreographer and a Dramaturg Lou Cope and Koen Augustijnen with contributions from Annie Pui Ling Lok
12 Re-Membering Zero Degrees Guy Cools
Part 5 Spectatorship
13 Porous Dramaturgy and the Pedestrian Cathy Turner
14 Dialectical Theatre and Devising: Dramaturgy as a Dialogue between the Author and the Audience Pedro Ilgenfritz
15 Acts of Spectating: The Dramaturgy of the Audience 's Experience in Contemporary Theatre Peter M. Boenisch
Afterword
In lieu of a conclusion Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane
Notes
Contributors
Index
