Making contemporary theatre

International rehearsal processes
Herausgeber: Harvie, Jen; Lavender, Andy

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Produktbeschreibung

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors, including Japan's Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Québécois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off 'asides', giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production, such as Complicite's 2003-04 The Elephant Vanishes, allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors, plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. Making contemporary theatre is a rich resource for the theatre-making student and the theatre-goer alike, full of diverse examples of how the most exciting theatre is actually made.

Produktdetails

• Theatre: Theory â Practice â Performance
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074929
• ISBN-10: 0719074924
• Artikelnr.: 27430766

Autorenporträt

Jen Harvie is Reader in Theatre and Performance in the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London. Andy Lavender is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Dean of Research at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF FIGURES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE: Andy Lavender ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction Witnessing postdramatic theatre-making Jen Harvie 1.The
Builders Association: Super Vision (2005) Digital dataflow and the
synthesis of everything Andy Lavender 2. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Myth (2007)
Mapping the multiple Lou Cope 3. Complicité: The Elephant Vanishes
(2003/04) 'The elephant and keeper have vanished completely... They will
never be coming back' Catherine Alexander 4. Elevator Repair Service: Cab
Legs (1997) to Gatz (2006) Reversing the ruins: the power of theatrical
miscomprehension Sara Jane Bailes 5. Forced Entertainment: The Travels
(2002) The anti-theatrical director Alex Mermikides 6. Rodrigo García and
La Carnicería Teatro: Une façon d'aborder l'idée de méfiance [One Way to
Approach the Idea of Mistrust] (2006) Approaching mistrust Lourdes Orozco
7. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Bye Bye: the New Primitive (2001) Theatre of the body
and cultural deconstruction Adam Broinowski 8. Robert Lepage and Ex
Machina: Lipsynch (2007) Performance transformations and cycles Aleksandar
SaSa Dundjerovic 9. Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players: The End
of Reality (2006) Exploring acting Sarah Gorman 10. Not Yet It's Difficult:
Blowback (2004) Unmaking Blowback - a visceral process for a political
theatre Peter Eckersall 11. Luk Perceval: Platonov (2006) Rules for a
theatre of contemporary contemplation Zoë Svendsen POSTSCRIPT: Andy
Lavender and Jen Harvie SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Index