Overview

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. -- .

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Author:   Jen Harvie ,  Andy Lavender ,  Maria M. Delgado ,  Maggie B. Gale
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780719074912

ISBN 10:   0719074916
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 -- .

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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

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