Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780367648916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Catherine Love

Opis

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance.

Spis treści

1. The problem of the theatre text  2. Dramaturgical innovations and evasions of authority: authorship and intention  3. Contemporary approaches to classic texts: supplementation and iterability  4. On the page: changing technologies of editing and publication

O autorze

Dr Catherine Love is a theatre academic and arts journalist. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She has previously published journal articles and book chapters on the work of theatre-makers including Katie Mitchell, Michael Pinchbeck, Simon Stephens, and Elevator Repair Service, and she is the author of Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree. She also reviews theatre across the North of England for the Guardian.