Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

Title: Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy
Author: Romanska, Magda
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Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of \"play making.\" Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years, and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; from dance and multimedia to filmmaking and robotics.

In our global, mediated context of multinational group collaborations that dissolve traditional divisions of roles as well as unbend previously intransigent rules of time and space, the dramaturg is also the ultimate globalist: intercultural mediator, information and research manager, media content analyst, interdisciplinary negotiator, social media strategist.

This collection focuses on contemporary dramaturgical practice, bringing together contributions not only from academics but also from prominent working dramaturgs. The inclusion of both means a strong level of engagement with current issues in dramaturgy, from the impact of social media to the ongoing centrality of interdisciplinary and intermedial processes.

The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses:
* world dramaturgy and global perspective
* dramaturgy as function, verb and skill
* dramaturgical leadership and season planning
* production dramaturgy in translation
* adaptation and new play development
* interdisciplinary dramaturgy
* play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy
* social media and audience outreach.

Magda Romanska is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, and Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera. Her books include The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor(2012), Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012), and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2014).


PART I WORLD DRAMATURGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
1 Robert Blacker looks at the past and future of American dramaturgy
2 Contemporary new play dramaturgy in Canada
3 Collaborative dramaturgy in Latin American theater
4 Documentary dramaturgy in Brazil
5 The place of a dramaturg in twenty-first century England
6 On German Dramaturgy
7 The making of La Dramaturgie in France
8 Dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in Poland
9 The new play dramaturgy in Russia
10 Dramaturgy in post-revolution Iran: problems and prospects
11 Performing dramaturgy in Syria: observations and interview with Mayson Ali
12 Official and unofficial dramaturgs: dramaturgy in China
13 Dramaturgy of Separated Elements in the Experimental Japanese Theatre
14 Dramaturgy in Indian theatre: a closer view
15 Dramaturgy in Australia and the case of Avast and Doku Rai
16 Dramaturgies in/of South Africa

PART II DRAMATURGY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
17 The dramaturg as globalist
18 Freelance dramaturgs in the twenty-first century: journalists, advocates, and curators
19 The National Theatre goes international: global branding and the regions
20 From alienation to identity: transnational communication of Russian-Israeli theatre
21 Intercultural dramaturgy: dramaturg as cultural liaison
22 The dramaturgical bridge: contextualizing foreignness in multilingual theatre
23 Reading and (re)directing \"racial scripts\" on and beyond the stage
24 Transcultural dramaturgy methods
25 The dramaturgical process and global understanding
26 European dramaturgy in the twenty-first century

PART III DRAMATURGY IN MOTION: DEMOLITIONS, DEFINITIONS, AND DEMARCATIONS
27 Dramaturgy on shifting grounds
28 Dramaturgy as skill, function, and verb
29 Interactual dramaturgy: intention and affect in interdisciplinary performance
30 The expansion of the role of the dramaturg in contemporary collaborative performance
31 Who is the dramaturg in devised theatre?
32 Finding our hyphenates: a new era for dramaturgs
33 Dramaturgy as a way of looking into the spectator’s aesthetic experience
34 Dramaturgy as training: a collaborative model at Shakespeare’s Globe
35 The art of collaboration: on dramaturgy and directing
36 Dramaturgy in action{…}even if it’s not as a dramaturg

PART IV DRAMATURGS AS ARTISTIC LEADERS AND VISIONARIES: PRIVILEGES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OFFICE
37 Dramaturgs as artistic leaders
38 Dramaturgical leadership and the politics of appeal in commercial theatre
39 On dramaturgy and leadership
40 Leadeship advice to a dramaturgy student
41 Season planning: challenges and opportunities
42 The dramaturg’s role in diversity and audience development
43 Guthrie Theater’s debt to women and diversity
44 Reimagining the literary office: designing a department that fulfills your purpose
45 The National New Play Network Collaborative Literary Office: new tools for old tricks

PART V DRAMATURG AS CONTEXT MANAGER: TRANSCULTURALISM, TRANSLATION, ADAPTATION, AND CONTEXTUALIZATION
46 A view from the bridge: the dramaturg’s role when working on a play in translation
47 Lost in translation
48 The dissemination of theatrical translation
49 Literary adaptation for the stage: a primer for adaptation dramaturgs
50 Intermingling literary and theatrical conventions
51 Research strategies in dramaturgical practice
52 Dramaturg as context manager: a phenomenological and political practice
53 New play explorations in the twenty-first century
54 Thinking like an actor: a guide for the production dramaturg
55 The youth respondent method: new work development for Theatre for Young Audiences

PART VI DRAMATURGY AMONG OTHER ARTS: INTERDISCIPLINARITY, TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, AND TRANSVERGENCE
56 Complex in-betweeness of dramaturgy and performance studies
57 The dramaturg(ies) of puppetry and visual theatre
58 A method for musical theatre dramaturgy
59 Borderless dramaturgy in dance theatre
60 The role of the dramaturg in the creation of new opera works
61 Dramaturgy and film
62 Phronesis for robots: (re)covering dramaturgy as an Interdiscipline
63 Dramaturgical design of the narrative in digital games
64 New media dramaturgy
65 The science of dramaturgy and the dramaturgy of science

PART VII DRAMATURG AS SYSTEMS ANALYST: DRAMATURGY OF POSTDRAMATIC STRUCTURES
66 Postdramatic dramaturgy
67 Teaching deconstructively
68 EF’s visit to a small planet: some questions to ask a play
69 Dramaturging non-realism: creating a new vocabulary
70 On dramaturgy in contemporary dance and choreography
71 Research, counter-text, performance: reconsidering the (textual) authority of the dramaturg
72 The bead diagram: a protean tool for script analysis
73 Methods for a new dramaturgy of digital performance
74 Drametrics: what dramaturgs should learn from mathematicians
75 Parallel-text analysis and practical dramaturgies

PART VIII DRAMATURG AS PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER: IMMERSIONS, TALKBACKS, LOBBY DISPLAYS, AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
76 Dramaturgy and the immersive theatre experience
77 Barrack-dramaturgy and the captive audience
78 Framing the theatrical experience: lobby displays
79 Dramaturg as public relations manager
80 Talkbacks: asking good discussion questions
81 Talkbacks for \"sensitive subject matter\" productions: the theory and practice
82 Dramaturgies for the digital age
83 Digital engagement: strategies for online dramaturgy
84 Digital dramaturgy and digital dramaturgs
85 Can technology save theatre? Tweet Seats, YouTube auditions, and Facebook backstage?

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date: 08/08/2014
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780415658492
Publishing status: AU In-stock Distributor