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Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre

Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre

Hardcover

Series: Focus on Dramaturgy

Performance ArtPlaywritingTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 0367201933
ISBN13: 9780367201937
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 2 2021
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context.

The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised performances, multilingual dramas, Hip Hop theatre, films, digital projects, and gig theatre, as well as translations and adaptations of classics and new theatre forms created by Irish, Spanish, Nigerian, Polish, American, Canadian, Australian, British, Russian, and multinational artists. Their verse dramaturgies explore timely issues such as global identities, agency and precarity, global and local politics, and generational and class stories. The development of dramaturgy is discussed with the focus turning to the new stylized approach to theatre, whose arrival Hans-Thies Lehmann foretold in his Postdramatic Theatre, documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre.

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