Dramaturgy and History -

Dramaturgy and History

Staging the Archive
Buch | Hardcover
140 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63628-3 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs’ engagements with history and historiography.

Dramaturgs play a vital role in amplifying and activating theatre’s unique potential to contribute to the pressing public discourse around the uses and legacies of history.This collection challenges the notion of history as an unassailable or settled set of facts, offering readers a glimpse into the processes and methods of eighteen dramaturgs working in a variety of settings, including professional theatres, universities, museums, and archives. The dramaturgs featured use history to a variety of ends: they reframe classical texts for contemporary audiences; advocate for the production of lesser-known writers and the expansion of the canon; create new works that bring women’s, LGBTQIA+, and Global Majority histories to life; and establish new and necessary archives by/of/for minoritarian artists. Collectively, they examine and animate some of the most urgent questions, concerns, and challenges that dramaturgs encounter in working with history.

An essential resource for teachers and students of dramaturgy, the collection offers a concluding hands-on exercise for each chapter to facilitate the reader’s application of the methods discussed in their own practice.

Caitlin A. Kane (they/she) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism at Kent State University. Erin Stoneking (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama.

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Caitlin A. Kane and Erin Stoneking

Part I: Production Dramaturgy: (Re)contextualizing Existing Plays

Chapter 1: Experimenting with Conceptual Casting: Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

Khalid Y. Long

Chapter 2: (Dis)Respecting Canonical Texts

Jennifer Popple

Chapter 3: Evoked, If Not Depicted: Dramaturgy and Local Histories

Charlie Peters

Chapter 4: Punk Nuns and Early Modern Vacationlands: Dramaturgical Approaches to Staging Sor Juana in the Twenty-First Century

Alison Hyde Pascale

Chapter 5: [Re]Fashioning Mowatt’s Comedy of Manners through Adapturgy

Janna Segal

Chapter 6: History Looking Back: Dramaturging the Gaze

Yiwen Wu

Chapter 7: “To Attach Our Floating Hearts”: The Dramaturgy of Queer Historiography

Percival Hornak

Part II: New Play Dramaturgy: Staging History and Historiography

Chapter 8: Staging the Queer Archive: soldiergirls in Process

Ryan Adelsheim

Chapter 9: Dancing Augmented Archives: Movement and Technology as Dramaturgical Practice

Al Evangelista

Chapter 10: Animating Loss: The Role of Historiography in New Play Development

Erin Stoneking

Chapter 11: Dramaturgy of Internal Displacement in Nigeria

Elaigwu P. Ameh

Chapter 12: Strength in Numbers: Cultivating Dramaturgical Collaboration across Disciplines

Lindsay L. Barr

Chapter 13: Loops of Time: A Historicized Dramaturgy

Sam Redway

Part III: Dramaturgy and/as Public History: Connecting with Broader Publics

Chapter 14: Hands-On History: Engaging Historical Thinking through Dramaturgy

Elysia Segal

Chapter 15: Applying Brecht’s Anti-Spectacular Approach to Staging Fascism

Ilinca Tamara Todoruț

Chapter 16: “Beyond Land Acknowledgement”: Rendering Central Illinois History along the Potawatomi Trail of Death

Nicole Anderson Cobb

Chapter 17: A Public Historian’s Guide to Dramaturging Native Plays

Laurie Arnold

Chapter 18: Archiving AfroLatine Theatre

Daphnie Sicre

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Focus on Dramaturgy
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-032-63628-9 / 1032636289
ISBN-13 978-1-032-63628-3 / 9781032636283
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
ein Handbuch für die Aus- und Weiterbildung

von Stephan Richter

Buch | Softcover (2024)
Henschel Verlag in E. A. Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG
24,95