Overview

Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs’ engagements with history and historiography. Dramaturgs play a vital role in amplifying and activating theatre’s unique potential to contribute to the pressing public discourse around the uses and legacies of history.This collection challenges the notion of history as an unassailable or settled set of facts, offering readers a glimpse into the processes and methods of eighteen dramaturgs working in a variety of settings, including professional theatres, universities, museums, and archives. The dramaturgs featured use history to a variety of ends: they reframe classical texts for contemporary audiences; advocate for the production of lesser-known writers and the expansion of the canon; create new works that bring women’s, LGBTQIA+, and Global Majority histories to life; and establish new and necessary archives by/of/for minoritarian artists. Collectively, they examine and animate some of the most urgent questions, concerns, and challenges that dramaturgs encounter in working with history. An essential resource for teachers and students of dramaturgy, the collection offers a concluding hands-on exercise for each chapter to facilitate the reader’s application of the methods discussed in their own practice.

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Author:   Caitlin A. Kane ,  Erin Stoneking
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781032636283

ISBN 10:   1032636289
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   22 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Caitlin Kane and Erin Stoneking Part I: Production Dramaturgy: (Re)contextualizing Existing Plays Chapter 1: Experimenting with Conceptual Casting: Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie Khalid Y. Long Chapter 2: (Dis)Respecting Canonical Texts Jennifer Popple Chapter 3: Evoked, If Not Depicted: Dramaturgy and Local Histories Charlie Peters Chapter 4: Punk Nuns and Early Modern Vacationlands: Dramaturgical Approaches to Staging Sor Juana in the 21st Century Alison Hyde Pascale Chapter 5: [Re]Fashioning Mowatt’s Comedy of Manners through Adapturgy Janna Segal Chapter 6: History Looking Back: Dramaturging the Gaze Yiwen Wu Chapter 7: “To Attach Our Floating Hearts”: The Dramaturgy of Queer Historiography Percival Hornak Part II: New Play Dramaturgy: Staging History and Historiography Chapter 8: Staging the Queer Archive: soldiergirls in Process Ryan Adelsheim Chapter 9: Dancing Augmented Archives: Movement and Technology as Dramaturgical Practice Al Evangelista Chapter 10: Animating Loss: The Role of Historiography in New Play Development Erin Stoneking Chapter 11: Dramaturgy of Internal Displacement in Nigeria Elaigwu P. Ameh Chapter 12: Strength in Numbers: Cultivating Dramaturgical Collaboration Across Disciplines Lindsay L. Barr Chapter 13: Loops of Time: A Historicized Dramaturgy Sam Redway Part III: Dramaturgy and/as Public History: Connecting with Broader Publics Chapter 14: Hands-On History: Engaging Historical Thinking through Dramaturgy Elysia Segal Chapter 15: Applying Brecht’s Anti-Spectacular Approach to Staging Fascism Ilinca Tamara Todoruț Chapter 16: ""Beyond Land Acknowledgement”: Rendering Central Illinois History Along The Potawatomi Trail of Death Nicole Anderson Cobb Chapter 17: A Public Historian’s Guide to Dramaturging Native Plays Laurie Arnold Chapter 18: Archiving AfroLatine Theatre Daphnie Sicre Index"

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Caitlin A. Kane (they/she) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism at Kent State University. Erin Stoneking (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama.

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