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Postdramatic Theatre and Form Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Postdramatic Theatre and Form By Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Postdramatic Theatre and Form by Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)


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Postdramatic Theatre and Form by Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

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.

About Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Michael Shane Boyle is a Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Matt Cornish is Assistant Professor of Theater History at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theatre after 1989. Brandon Woolf is a theatre artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at New York University, USA, where he also serves as Director of the Program in Dramatic Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 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 Index

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NLS9781350183308
9781350183308
135018330X
Postdramatic Theatre and Form by Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-09-17
280
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