Overview

This series seeks to develop understanding of dramaturgy as a contemporary field, in dialogue with its rich and varied past. The prefix 'new' invites authors to pay attention to the expansion or re-framing of dramaturgy in relation to contemporary contexts, rather than implying a requirement to replace 'old' with 'new', or to offer a programmatic approach to the definition and practice of dramaturgy. The series will comprise two strands: * Course texts which encompass fresh and original research insights on key themes related to dramaturgy, at an accessible level for students and non-experts; * More specialized work which includes a higher level of theorisation. The books in this series will, for example: look at the dramaturgical implications of new media, globalisation and forms of spectatorship; draw on an 'expanded' use of dramaturgical analysis to examine the relationship between theatrical performance and other disciplines; discuss dramaturgical practice and theory, across a range of perspectives and geographies. Aims of the series: *To foster international dialogue and exchange, extending understanding of the complex contexts of dramaturgy and embracing its diversity and scope *To examine and deploy dramaturgical thinking as a productive analytical and practical approach to performance criticism as well as performance-making *To offer theoretical discussion of dramaturgy as a field *To investigate the relationship between idea and form in contemporary practice, including practice-as-research *To discuss emerging areas of contemporary performance practice that produce new dramaturgies or re-contextualise existing approaches *To provide English-language texts for teaching dramaturgy in Higher Education *To build on existing overviews of dramaturgy and of contemporary performance practice to discuss specific aspects of dramaturgy in detail, applying historical and theoretical rigour

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Cathy Turner is Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her previous publications include Dramaturgy and Performance (co-authored with Synne Behrndt, Palgrave, 2008) and special issues and articles in journals such as Contemporary Theatre Review, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Performance Research. Cathy is also a core member of Wrights & Sites (an artist's collective whose work is concerned with space and place), and a member of the inter-institutional group, Research into Expanded Dramaturgies - expandeddramaturgies.com. Synne Behrndt is Lecturer in Performing Arts at the University of Winchester, UK. She is the co-author of Dramaturgy and Performance (with Cathy Turner, Palgrave, 2008) and has published previously in Devising in Process (ed. Smart & Merkimides, Palgrave, 2010) and the journal Contemporary Theatre Review, amongst others.

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