Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010 (Performance Books) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408139960 ISBN 13: 9781408139967

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2011

Synopsis

Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and contextualises their reading by revealing how a script can emerge from or provoke a collaborative devising process.

The works featured include: Hotel Methuselah, Imitating the Dog/Pete Brooks; Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo?, Athletes of the Heart; A Girl Skipping, Graeme Miller; Trans-Acts, Julia Bardsley; US, 1966 (with an introduction by Peter Brook); Miss America, Split Britches and 48 Minutes for Palestine, Mojisola Adebayo and Ashtar Theatre.

About this title

Book Description:

The notion of writing for interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of the plays featured in Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration making this a very unique collection. The extensive Introduction and practitioner notes make this an invaluable resource for any student of theatre and performance.

About the Author:

Anna Furse is an award-winning theatre director and is the director of the MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths and the curator of the Performance Research Forum. Her staged work includes both new writing and classics, and a range of devised works as well as her own commissioned writing and creations, which have received several Arts Council Writers Awards and Bursaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408139960
• ISBN 13: 9781408139967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Furse Anna