Postdramatic theatre and form / edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Michael Shane, editor.

Cornish, Matt, editor.

Woolf, Brandon, editor.

Series:

Methuen drama engage

Methuen Drama engage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater--Philosophy.

Experimental theater.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2019.

Summary:

"Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic theatre, turning attention to the overlooked issue on which they hinge: form. Contributors draw on literary studies, film studies and critical theory to reimagine the formal aspects of theatre, such as space, media and text. The volume expands how scholars think of theatrical form, insisting that formalist analysis can be useful for studying the ways theatre is produced and consumed, and how theatre makers engage with other forms like dance and visual art. Chapters focus on a range of interdisciplinary artists including Tadeusz Kantor, Ann Liv Young and Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, as well as theatre's enmeshment within institutional formations like funding agencies, festivals, real estate and healthcare. A timely investigation of the aesthetic structures and material conditions of contemporary performance, this collection refines what we mean, and what we don't, when we speak of postdramatic theatre."--Back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Form and Postdramatic Theatre / Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf

2. Drama: The Szondi Connection / Elinor Fuchs

Part One: Formal Aspects. 3. Text: The Director's Notebook / Edith Cassiers, Timmy De Laet and Luk Van den Dries ; 4. Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-Collapse Seattle / Jasmine Mahmoud ; 5. Time: Unsettling the Capitalist Present / Philip Watkinson ; 6. Body: Tadeusz Kantor and the Posthuman Stage / Magda Romanska ; 7. Media: Intermission / Nicholas Ridout

Part Two: Social Formations. 8. Festivals: Conventional Disruption, or, Why Ann Liv Young Ruined Rebecca Patek's Show / Andrew Friedman ; 9. Galleries: Resituating the Postdramatic Real / Ryan Anthony Hatch ; 10. Process: 'Set Writing' in Contemporary French Theatre / Kate Bredeson ; 11. Choreography: Performative Dance Histories / Yvonne Hardt ; 12. Migration: Common and Uncommon Grounds at Berlin's Gorki Theater / Matt Cornish ; 13. Elder Care: Performing Dementia

Toward a Postdramatic Subjectivity / Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Postdramatic theatre and form.

ISBN:

9781350043169

1350043168

OCLC:

1039633261

Publisher Number:

99983585965