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Theatre-Making - Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Theatre-Making - Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st
Century explores the modes of authorship in twenty-first century
theatre - spanning classical theatre, devising and adaptation, new
writing, verbatim and contemporary performance - with reference to
genealogies through which these categories have been constructed in
the English-speaking world.Based on substantial original research,
it is the first book to deliberately bring together text-based and
performance-based theatre, and offer their consideration with
reference to different cultures (European vs. Anglo-American).
Amongst other things, the book argues that devising has now become
a historical category, that playwrights in the twenty-first century
are more akin to music composers and that contemporary
performance-makers are finally beginning to understand Brecht.
Examples under discussion range from the Royal Shakespeare
Company's kinaesthetic approach to Shakespeare, to the Belgian
company Ontroerend Goed's interactive shows. Drawing on interviews
with leading contemporary practitioners and companies, such as Tim
Crouch, Kneehigh and Simon Stephens, amongst others, the book
usefully bridges the gap between dramatic theatre and devised
performance by exploring the role of the theatre writer, writing
and text in all of these diverse manifestations of theatre and
performance-making.
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