New Performance/New Writing

ISBN-13: 9781137467669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

John Freeman

Opis

New Performance/New Writing offers contextualisation and guidance on innovative approaches to writing for performance. It explores a wide range of performance practices, including immersive and solo theatre, autoethnography and applied drama.

Spis treści

21+ Questions for Theatre Makers Introduction: What this book is, and how to read it 1. Preparing the Ground for Study 2. New Contexts, New Forms, New Voices.- Theatre Timeline: 1900 to the Nearly Now 3. Nothing Dates Like the Nearly New: Futurism, Surrealism, Dada and a Century of Change 4. Writing the Modern: Something Old, Something New 5. Writing the Body, Writing the Self 6. Writing the Written, Writing the Group Bibliography Index.

O autorze

John Freeman is Professor of Theatre and Dean of Culture and Language Sciences at the University of St Mark & St John, UK, prior to which he was Head of Theatre at Falmouth University, UK. He has written six books on theatre and numerous articles on the relationship between performance, creative research and education.