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Why Theatre?
For two years now, the Belgian theatre NTGent and the Berlin based Verbrecher Verlag have been publishing the series The Golden Books: Books on the theory and practice of contemporary performance art, on individual plays and general social questions. For the 5th volume, after months of cultural lockdown, when live arts were in a state of emergency and the whole institution rethought their priorities, NTGent asked more than 100 of the most influential artists and intellectuals in the world the question: Why theatre? Why is this art form so unique, so beautiful, so indispensable? From classical theatre to performance art and dance, from activism to political theatre and the performativity of e...
Dramaturgy to Make Visible
This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating wide-ranging events and activities. This exploration defines dramaturgy as a perceptibly transforming agency in the construction, presentation and reception of contemporary performance; and it shows how contemporary performance has an intrinsic dramaturgical aspect whose proliferation of dramaturgical practices has led to a far-reaching reinvention of what contemporary theatre is. In doing so, this book deals with a careful selection of performance practices, including theatrical adaptations, new media dramaturgy, contemporary dance, installation-performance, postdramatic theatre, visionary works by auteurs, and revivals of well-known stage shows. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater studies, performance studies, cultural studies, curating, and dance scholarship.
A Stage for Debate
A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater. The book explores the extent to which the Burgtheater repertoire contributed to important political and cultural debates on individual liberty, the role of women in society, and the understanding of national and regional identity. The relevance of the Burgtheater as a forum for political debate is assessed not by the degree to which the performed plays transgressed established norms, but by the range of positions that were voiced on a given topic. Martin Wagner investigates the roughly 1,000 plays from across Europe that were introduced to the Burgtheater’s repertoire between 1814 and 1867 by combining a general overview with detailed interpretations of especially successful plays. Wagner reveals that the Burgtheater was significantly more involved in contemporary debates than the stereotype of this stage as an artistically refined but apolitical institution suggests. Drawing from theatre studies and German and Austrian studies more broadly, A Stage for Debate revises the history of one of Europe’s leading theatres.
Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age
This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly conducted in online environments,‘post-truth’ performances become evermore central to democratic processes. It is therefore essential to reconsider the political potency of performance and theatricality in order to effectively reinvigorate democracy in the 21st century. Drawing on applied theatre practices, this book shows that performance is inherently concerned with cooperative and collaborative encounters across difference, and performance might therefore support effective responses to digital po...
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters...
Praktiken in/der Versammlung
Körper konstituieren eine Versammlung, indem sie ein Stück Zeit und ein Stück Raum für sich beanspruchen, um zu tun, wozu auch immer sie sich zusammengefunden haben. Spätestens unter dem Eindruck von physical distancing und weitreichenden Kontaktbeschränkungen in Zeiten der COVID-19-Pandemie wird offensichtlich, dass ein solches Verständnis von Versammlung, das sich auf Momente physischer Kopräsenz stützt, schnell ins Leere läuft: Versammlungen haben eben auch als räumlich distribuierte statt, ihr Raum und ihre Zeit können in unterschiedlichen Graden virtualisiert sein. Die Möglichkeiten und Wirkungen des Versammelns sind nicht so konsistent und selbstverständlich, wie sie auf ...
Staging 21st Century Tragedies
Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The co...
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion reflects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock thirty years after the collapse of communism. In addition to plays originally written in Romanian, the collection includes work by German, Hungarian and Roma authors born and/or working in Romania, and brings together plays written during the communist period and its aftermath. The plays included in the collection, edited and translated by Jozefina Komporaly and fully published for the first time in English, demonstrate broad variety in terms of form and content – ranging from family dramas to allegories, and absurdist experiments to modular t...
Lam Gods / The Ghent Altarpiece
Text in Vlaams & English "De Gouden Boeken" zijn een samenwerking van NTGent met de Berlijnse uitgever Verbrecher Verlag. Het is een reeks met programmateksten over theater, esthetiek en politiek, en met achtergrondteksten over producties en projecten van NTGent. Een reeks over de theorie én de praktijk van een "stadstheater van de toekomst". "Lam Gods/The Ghent Altarpiece" is het tweede deel van deze reeks en verschijnt eind september 2018 naar aanleiding van de première van de door Milo Rau geregisseerde gelijknamige voorstelling bij NTGent, tevens de openingsproductie van zijn eerste seizoen als artistiek directeur van het gezelschap. Het boek verzamelt in het Nederlands en Engels mater...
Kids on Stage – Andere Spielweisen in der Performancekunst
Seit geraumer Zeit mehren sich die Produktionen im zeitgenössischen Tanz und Theater sowie in der Performancekunst, in denen Kinder und Jugendliche nicht nur auf der Bühne, sondern auch hinter und vor der Bühne neue Rollen und Positionen einnehmen. Eröffnet werden andere Spielweisen und demokratische Modellierungen, die das Theater als generationenübergreifenden Verhandlungsraum erproben. Anliegen dieses Bandes ist es, anhand von Beispielen aktuelle Diskurse, Hintergründe und Traditionen dieser vielgestaltigen Entwicklung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu beleuchten und Impulse für einen transdisziplinären Diskurs anzuregen. Dafür tragen neben einer Einführung in das Feld zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst vier Kapitel bei: Generationenverhältnis in Ästhetik und Bildung, Generationenverhältnis in Theater, Tanz und Performance, Künstlerische Modelle in transgenerationaler und -kultureller Perspektive sowie Kollaborationen mit Kindern und Jugendlichen.
