UID:
almahu_9949386649202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429260056
,
0429260059
,
9780429522208
,
0429522207
,
9780429535673
,
0429535678
,
9780429550379
,
0429550375
Series Statement:
Focus on Dramaturgy
Content:
Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised performances, multilingual dramas, Hip Hop theatre, films, digital projects, and gig theatre, as well as translations and adaptations of classics and new theatre forms created by Irish, Spanish, Nigerian, Polish, American, Canadian, Australian, British, Russian, and multinational artists. Their verse dramaturgies explore timely issues such as global identities, agency and precarity, global and local politics, and generational and class stories. The development of dramaturgy is discussed with the focus turning to the new stylized approach to theatre, whose arrival Hans-Thies Lehmann foretold in his Postdramatic Theatre, documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre. Serving theatre-makers, scholars, and students working with classical and contemporary verse and poetry in performance contexts; practitioners and academics of aural and oral dramaturgies; voice and verse-speaking coaches; and actors seeking the creative opportunities that verse offers, Dramaturgy of Form reveals verse as a tool for innovation and transformation that is at the forefront of contemporary practices and experiences.
Note:
Chapter 1: Heteroglossia of Verse and Its Dramaturgical Potential; Chapter 2: Verse in Translation and Adaptation; Chapter 3: (No-longer) Ibsen's "Language of the Gods": Verse and Marginalized Voices; Chapter 4: Verse and New Theatre Forms.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367201933
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367201937
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429260056
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429260056