Zoe Svendsen

Theatre and Dramaturgy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance?
Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre & Dramaturgy offers a working definition of what dramaturgy means, and asks how understanding theatre from the perspective of dramaturgy can help us understand the world around us.

This concise study examines how western histories and practices of theatre have functioned to achieve their effects, through understanding dramaturgy as the arrangement or structure of the work in time and space - both at the fictional level and in relation to performance. Exploring the relationship between plays and their meaning in production, this guide focuses on how understanding dramaturgy is critical to understanding how plays achieve their effects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350332478
• Artikelnr.: 68334334

Autorenporträt

Zoë Svendsen is a dramaturg and theatre director, who makes participatory theatre performances and installations exploring ecological crisis and capitalism with her company, METIS, as well as reimagining early modern texts for the contemporary stage with theatres such as The Globe, the National Theatre, the Young Vic and the RSC. Zoë is Associate Artist with Cambridge Junction and Hightide, and in 2021-22 developed the concept of 'climate dramaturgy' as associate artist at the Donmar. Zoë is Lecturer in Drama and Performance at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction What is Dramaturgy? Dramaturgy & Drama Dramaturgical
Approaches Dramaturgy & Plays Dramaturgy & Production 1: DRAMATURGY & THE
AUDIENCE i. Dramaturgies of Entertainment Acting 'for' the Audience
Theatricality ii. Dramaturgies of Autonomy Modernism Ignoring the Audience
Autonomy & Absorption Autonomy & Landscape Legacies of Modernism A
Comforting Convention? iii. Dramaturgies of the Political Naturalism The
Epic Theatre Brecht's Legacy Get out of the Theatre (and into Performance)
iv. Dramaturgies of Participation A Plethora of Forms Participation &
Politics 2: DRAMATURGY & POWER Dramaturgy & Economy Dramaturgies of Winners
and Losers Dramaturgy & Marginalisation Dramaturgies of Imagining Otherwise
Theatre & Climate Crisis Coda Further Reading Index