Theatre-Making Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century [Hardcover]

Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies though which these categories have been constructed in the English-speaking world.Introduction 1. Staging a Play: The Problems of Page and Stage 2. From Devising to Adaptation 3. New Writing in the 21st Century 4. Verbatim 5. Relational New Works Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1: Simon Stephens - Interview Appendix 2: Philip Ralph - Interview Appendix 3: Tim Crouch - Interview

Duaka Radosavljevic is Lecturer of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent, UK. She has previously worked as the dramaturg at the Northern Stage ensemble, education practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company and she regularly reviews for The Stage Newspaper. Her collection of interviews The Contemporary Ensemble was published in 2013.Winner of the David Bradby TaPRA Research Prize 2015

'Theatre-Making puts to rest some outdated binaries between text-oriented and alternative approaches. It is subtle in exploring the complexities and interrelationships of different modes of practise, and carefully attends to how apprently similar practises have evolved in different areas and traditions. This volume, which charts the history and dynamics of how practises emerge and overlap, will be invaluable to teachers and students of contemporary theatre.' - Greath White, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

'By focusing on work like Tim Crouch's The Author, Ontroerend Goed's Internal and Simon Stephens's Three Kingdoms, Theatre-Making presents the notion of audience as co-creators, so that by the end of this hugely readable study, the title takes on a whole new meaning; all of us are discovered to be theatre-makers, no matter what our relationship is to the piece in questionl³V