Decentered Playwriting

Alternative Techniques for the Stage
Herausgeber: Dunn, Carolyn M.; Hunter, Les; Holmes, Eric Micha

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Produktbeschreibung

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781032218083
• ISBN-10: 1032218088
• Artikelnr.: 68713799

Autorenporträt

Carolyn M. Dunn is a playwright, dramaturg, actor, and director, whose plays have been Equity produced on stages in Los Angeles and New York. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Eric Micha Holmes is a dramatist, dramaturg, and educator, whose work has been produced and developed internationally. He teaches at The National Theatre School of Canada and Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program, USA. Les Hunter is a playwright and theatre historian. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Baldwin Wallace University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Decenter(Ed) Playwriting: Alternative Tools, Techniques, and
Structures; 1. Playwrights as Architects of Third Space: The Dramaturgy of
Japanese Traditional Performing Arts; 2. The Dramaturgy of Nothingness; 3.
Poetic Expression in K¿naka Maoli Playwriting Praxis; 4. On Disaesthetics
in Hip Hop Dramaturgy: Ruminations on Thinking and Doing; 5.
Context/Culture: Using Some of the Complex Dramaturgy of Black Theatre of
the 19th Century to Build Contemporary Work; 6. Decentering Humans: Writing
Our Way Out of the Apocalypse; 7. Write Where You Are; Part 2:
Decenter(Ing) Playwriting: Community Practices, Ritual, and Healing; 8.
Horizontal Theatre: Democratic Practices of the New Docudrama; 9. Toward
Self-Construction: A Filipinx Dramaturgy in the Diaspora; 10. Writing with
Irene: Sustaining the Fornés Playwriting Method; 11. First People First:
Community-Based Theatre Praxis in Native American and Indigenous Spaces;
12. "Aruku-Improv," Playwriting and Performance Devising Dramaturgy Part 3:
Case Studies in Decentered Processes: Models and Testimonies; 13. Outsider
Indian: A Decentered Narrative on the Long Journey of Native Playwriting;
14. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Zimbabwean Ndebele Izaga: A
Conversation on Playwriting as Auto-Ethnographic Experiment; 15.
Unarcheology: Anticolonial Aesthetics and Putting Things Back in the
Ground; 16. Indigenous Placemaking and Storyweaving: An Interview with
Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna, Rappahannock)