Making Contemporary Theatre International Rehearsal Processes

by Harvie, Jen; Lavender, Andy

• ISBN13: 9780719074929
• ISBN10: 0719074924
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

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 theatre artists 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 performers to multimedia designers.

Author Biography

Jen Harvie is Reader in Theatre and Performance in the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London. Andy Lavender is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Dean of Research at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of boxes	p. xii
List of contributors	p. xiv
Preface	p. xviii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction-Contemporary theatre in the making	p. 1
The Builders Association - Super Vision (2005) - Digital dataflow and the synthesis of everything	p. 17
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Myth (2007) - Mapping the multiple	p. 39
Complicite - The Elephant Vanishes (2003/4) - 'The elephant and keeper have vanished completely... They will never be coming back'	p. 59
Elevator Repair Service - Cab Legs (1997) to Gatz (2006) - Reversing the ruins: the power of theatrical miscomprehension	p. 81
Forced Entertainment - The Travels (2002) - The anti-theatrical director	p. 101
Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro - Une Façon d'aborder l'idée de méfiance (One Way to Approach the Idea of Mistrust) (2006) - Approaching mistrust	p. 121
Gekidan Kaitaisha - Bye Bye: The New Primitive (2001) - Theatre of the body and cultural deconstruction	p. 140
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina - Lipsynch (2007) - Performance transformations and cycles	p. 160
Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players - The End of Reality (2006) - Exploring acting	p. 180
Not Yet It's Difficult - Blowback (2004) - Unmaking Blowback - a visceral process for a political theatre	p. 202
Luk Perceval - Platonov (2006) - Rules for a theatre of contemporary contemplation	p. 222
Postscript	p. 242
Select bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 247
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