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SPEAK!—Sanja Mitrović
SPEAK! (2013) uses the format of a contest to engage the audience in reflection about political speeches and what they do to their audiences. Two...
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Introduction
The Introduction outlines how this book elaborates an expanded approach to doing dramaturgy informed by today’s highly diverse field of theatre,...
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Thinking Through Practice
This chapter starts from starts from tracing how ideas and practices such as institutional dramaturgy, production dramaturgy, and the dramaturgical...
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Dear Winnie—Jr.cE.sA.r
Dear Winnie (2019) is about the legacy of Winnie Mandela, who by the time of her death in 2018 had become a controversial figure, celebrated for her...
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Phobiarama—Dries Verhoeven
Phobiarama by Dries Verhoeven (Chap. 13 ) is a performance-installation that looks like a haunted...
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Doing Dramaturgy
This chapter looks at how dramaturgs participate in, or “inhabit” practices of thinking-making and are response-able to them. The chapter starts from...
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Chekhov’s First Play—Dead Centre
Dead Centre’s staging of Chekhov’s First Play (2015) engages with a question that has occupied dramaturgs ever since Lessing’s days, namely how to...
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Rehearsing the Actors III: Playing the Events
This chapter proposes that, by experimenting with theatre students on less well-known means of character/Figure construction, as delineated by...
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Form and Core: Brian Friel and Denis Donoghue
Kuczyńska examines the genesis of two plays in which Friel engaged extensively with the writings of Denis Donoghue: The Communication Cord (1982) and...
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Rehearsing the Actors I: Arrangement
Brecht provides a particularly useful approach to staging that we adopted during the rehearsals of Mother Courage in 2015. Arrangement is Brecht’s...
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1990–2001
This chapter addresses Ron Hutchinson’s Pygmies in the Ruins (1991), Brenda Murphy and Christine Poland’s Forced Upon Us (1999), and Gary Mitchell’s...
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1921–1950
This chapter addresses Northern Irish plays produced between 1921 and 1950. After providing a brief history of the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s (RUC)...
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Why Engage with Brecht?
In this volume, I record a process of applying a pedagogy of engagement with Bertolt Brecht, taking advantage of the most current scholarship, for an...
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Introduction
This introduction contextualises a practice-based investigation into the potential of fieldwork as a key methodology in theatre and performance...
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John Bull, Nora Reilly and the Garden City: A Match Made in “Heavn”
There can be no doubt that Irish historical factors at the turn of the twentieth century influenced the writing of Shaw’s 1904 play, John Bull’s...
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The Wild West Meets the West End: The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet and Pygmalion
Following the Abbey Theatre’s rejection of John Bull’s Other Island in 1904, it was to be another five years before Shaw’s plays were performed on...
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The Argentine Network in Paris: Lavelli, Copi, the TSE Group, and Other Stealthy Actors at the Top of French Decentralization
This chapter mainly focuses on Jorge Lavelli as both stage director and artistic director of the Théâtre de la Colline, taking a more intense...
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Ontologies of Belonging: Philosophical, Historical and Narratological Considerations
This chapter explores belonging ontologically as a condition that rises with being. Pairing this firstly with looking at the Human Rights Declaration...
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Rebooting the Social Contract: Trampoline House and Deportation Centre Sjælsmark
This chapter functions as a setting-the-scene for the fieldwork in Sjælsmark and as a way-finder into the lives of the people who live in precarious...
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Ethnoplaywriting: Creating Belonging
In this chapter, how much home a person needs will be explored in the ethnographic, creative and methodological potential of ethnoplaywriting....