Lightwork: Texts on and from Collaborative Multimedia Theatre (Playtext)

Insight into the collaborative, multi-layered, and sometimes messy business of theater.

The artist-led theater company Lightwork specializes in collaborative multimedia performance. The company experimented with several performance forms that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century including devised and improvisation-led approaches. This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by Lightwork and one play-text from Lightwork’s precursor company Academy Productions. The twelve-year span covered by the work reflects a period in British performance practice when the interrelation of page and stage, process and production, and text and “non-text” were being radically rethought.

Alex Mermikides is the doctoral program leader at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.

Andy Lavender is professor of theater and performance at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.