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Harvie, Jen - Making Contemporary Theatre

Making Contemporary Theatre : International Rehearsal Processes

By: Harvie, Jen (Edited by), Lavender, Andy (Edited by). Manchester University Press. Published: 01/03/2010. Audience Guide: Tertiary Education (US: College).
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"Making Contemporary Theatre" reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Using eye-witness accounts and over 80 photographs, it offers extraordinary insights into the innovative and exciting methods used by the most influential emerging theatre companies, including the UK's Complicite and Forced Entertainment and New York's The Builders Association, as well as directors such as Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Where other books on theatre-making tend to focus on playwriting, acting or directing, this book explores the contributions made by all of theatre's creative artists, from directors to scenographers to multimedia artists. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors, including Japan's Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Quebecois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off 'asides', giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production, such as Complicite's 2003-04 "The Elephant Vanishes", allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors, plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. "Making Contemporary Theatre" is a rich resource for the theatre-making student and the theatre-goer alike, full of diverse examples of how the most exciting theatre is actually made.

Item Details

ISBN10/13: 0719074916/9780719074912
TITLE: Making Contemporary Theatre
CONTRIBUTORS: Harvie, Jen (Edited by), Lavender, Andy (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Manchester University Press
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 01/03/2010
SUBJECT: Performing Arts, Theatre & Drama
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 156mm x 234mm
PAGES: 272
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Tertiary Education (US: College)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Illustrations
CONTENTS:

LIST OF FIGURES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE: Andy Lavender ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction Witnessing postdramatic theatre-making Jen Harvie 1.The Builders Association: Super Vision (2005) Digital dataflow and the synthesis of everything Andy Lavender 2. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Myth (2007) Mapping the multiple Lou Cope 3. Complicite: The Elephant Vanishes (2003/04) 'The elephant and keeper have vanished completely - They will never be coming back' Catherine Alexander 4. Elevator Repair Service: Cab Legs (1997) to Gatz (2006) Reversing the ruins: the power of theatrical miscomprehension Sara Jane Bailes 5. Forced Entertainment: The Travels (2002) The anti-theatrical director Alex Mermikides 6. Rodrigo Garcia and La Carniceria Teatro: Une facon d'aborder l'idee de mefiance [One Way to Approach the Idea of Mistrust] (2006) Approaching mistrust Lourdes Orozco 7. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Bye Bye: the New Primitive (2001) Theatre of the body and cultural deconstruction Adam Broinowski 8. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina: Lipsynch (2007) Performance transformations and cycles Aleksandar SaA'a Dundjerovic 9. Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players: The End of Reality (2006) Exploring acting Sarah Gorman 10. Not Yet It's Difficult: Blowback (2004) Unmaking Blowback - a visceral process for a political theatre Peter Eckersall 11. Luk Perceval: Platonov (2006) Rules for a theatre of contemporary contemplation ZoA" Svendsen POSTSCRIPT: Andy Lavender and Jen Harvie SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Index