1000 Ways to Ask Why

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?

1000 Ways to Ask Why, is a practical how to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers.

This book introduces The Mosaic Scale process, this is a five-step system that can be dipped in and out of, the steps don’t have to be read in a linear way. Akin to a mosaic-building approach, it is designed to help theatre makers to refine and develop the bigger picture of a script or a piece of devised performance. Until now, there has been no formal technique for literary or process dramaturgy. This step-by-step process for applying dramaturgical thinking is a series of questions, exercises, and considerations to ask throughout the process of theatre making and rehearsal.



The 1st ‘How to’ literary and process dramaturgy guide.
Full of practical exercises, questions, and ways to approach dramaturgical thinking.
Accessible exploration of a subject that can sometimes be inaccessibly academic.

This volume will be of great interest to students and dramaturgs.