A History of the Theatre Laboratory

ISBN-13: 9781138680005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Bryan Brown

Opis

The term 'theatre laboratory' appears across a series of interconnected practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Bryan Brown seeks to properly address this contested phrase, and to position it within a wider history of laboratory studies. A History of the Theatre Laboratory traces the organizational structures of creativity, finding two distinct archetypes present across theatre, the sciences, and visual art. These strands, rooted in Russian culture and history, are examined in a series of interviews with, and studies of, contemporary practitioners including Slava Polunin, Anatoli Vassiliev, Sergei Zhenovach and Dmitry Krymov. Drawing upon texts and practitioners little known in the English language, as well as upon the wider field of laboratory studies, this volume presents a thoroughly historicized understanding of theatre laboratories and their use in contemporary practice.