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Royal Court : international / Elaine Aston and Mark O'Thomas.
Van Pelt Library PN2596.L7 R5155 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aston, Elaine, author.
- O'Thomas, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Studies in international performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Royal Court Theatre.
- English Stage Company.
- Playwriting--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.
- Playwriting.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Summary:
- Royal Court: International is the first full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department. It charts the engagement of the UK's premiere theatre for new writing with an internationalist agenda and takes readers inside the process developed by the Court for the workshop projects it has undertaken in different parts of the world since the late 1990s. Covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, it highlights new writing from different parts of the globe, including France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Columbia, Iran, the Near East, North Africa, Nigeria and India. First-hand accounts of the work appear in contributions from Stephen Daldry, Elyse Dodgson and Vicky Featherstone, and in interviews with Marcos Barbosa (Brazil), Anupama Chandrasekhar (India), Dominic Cooke, Sasha Dugdale, Marius von Mayenburg (Germany), Mark Ravenhill and Indhu Rubasingham. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Royal Court: International - Histories and Contexts 1
- George Devine and the English Stage Company 4
- Gaskill and after 7
- Stafford-Clark: the 'Thatcher years' 11
- Stephen Daldry - founding the International Department 13
- The Rickson years: a commitment to internationalism 17
- Dominic Cooke: keeping borders open 22
- Vicky Featherstone: looking ahead 25
- 2 International Workshops and Residencies 28
- Shock of the new 29
- 'Cool Britannia' 31
- The Royal Court international workshops - beginnings 32
- Developing the international workshop: 'What is a play? Who are we now?' 35
- Global partners and the development system 39
- The International Residency 41
- Emerging writers in emerging markets 45
- The role of translation 46
- 3 Conversations 57
- Conversation with Indhu Rubasingham 60
- Conversation with Marius von Mayenburg 69
- Conversation with Sasha Dugdale 77
- Conversation with Marcos Barbosa 84
- Conversation with Dominic Cooke 92
- Conversation with Anupama Chandrasekhar 101
- Conversation with Mark Ravenhill 109
- 4 International Plays and UK Receptions 126
- NEWS: forming a horizon of international expectation 128
- Focus on Germany 132
- Russia's new drama 136
- From Brazil to Cuba and on to Mexico, Colombia and Chile 141
- Looking to Eastern Europe 148
- 'Which country are we in?' - Iran, Near East, North Africa and Nigeria 151
- Coming full circle - India 153
- 5 International Impact and Legacies 157
- International workshop legacies: Russia, Brazil and India 159
- Individual pathways: Sigarev, Barbosa, Chandrasekhar 168
- Writing across borders: I Come From There and Feast 171
- International impact on British playwrights 179
- 'Over There' - concluding reflections 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137461827
- 1137461829
- 9780230319486
- 0230319483
- OCLC:
- 886488246
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