Diversity, inclusion, and representation in contemporary dramaturgy : case studies from the field /
edited by Philippa Kelly with associated editor Amrita Ramanan.
- 1 online resource.
- Focus on dramaturgy .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: dramaturgy in motion -- SECTION ONE Permission to speak -- 1 Deconstructing our perspectives on casting: an "inter-article" with Hana S. Sharif -- 2 Dramaturgy as prophecy: Facing Our Truth and dramaturging the Predominantly White Institution -- 3 The dramaturgy of the classroom -- SECTION TWO Taking up positions -- playwright/dramaturg -- 4 The dramaturgy of Black culture: the Court Theatre's productions of August Wilson's Century Cycle 5 Embodied dramaturgy: the development of the indigenous play, The Patron Saint of the Lost Children -- 6 The name (isn't a) game: new explorations in trans applied theater -- 7 Translation and form -- SECTION THREE Who's "at the table"? -- 8 Crossing The Line -- 9 Depth Perception: re-thinking social roles, staging Asperger's from the inside -- 10 Decolonizing "equity, diversity, and inclusion": strategies for resisting white supremacy -- 11 Dramaturging revolution: Diana Oh's 2017: the concert and call to arms!!!!!!!!! the final installation SECTION FOUR Cultural landscapes, past, present, and future -- 12 The stakes of expanding a cultural landscape: dramaturging, adapting, and performing Gao Xinjian's The Other Shore -- 13 Visit to a zoot planet: UCSC suits up in 2017 -- 14 The Dramaturgical Impulse -- or how big is your universe? -- 15 Dethroning Ourselves from the Center
"Diversity, Inclusion and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared. The sixteen contributors to this volume offer personal windows into dramaturgy practice, encouraging theater practitioners, students, and general theater-lovers to imagine themselves as dramaturgs newly inspired by the encounters and enquiries that are the juice of contemporary theater. Each case study is written by a dramaturg whose body of work explores important issues of race, cultural equity, and culturally-specific practices within a wide range of conventions, venues, and communities. The contributors demonstrate the unique capacity of their craft to straddle the ravine between stage and stalls, intention and impact. By unpacking, in the most up-to-date ways, the central question of "Why this play, at this time, for this audience?," this collection provides valuable insights and dramaturgy tools for scholars and students of Dramaturgy, Directing and Theatre Studies"--
9780429445316 0429445318 9780429817724 042981772X 9780429817731 0429817738 9780429817717 0429817711
Drama--Technique.
Race in the theater.
Minorities in the performing arts.
Theater--Production and direction.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft
PN1660.5
808.2
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: dramaturgy in motion -- SECTION ONE Permission to speak -- 1 Deconstructing our perspectives on casting: an "inter-article" with Hana S. Sharif -- 2 Dramaturgy as prophecy: Facing Our Truth and dramaturging the Predominantly White Institution -- 3 The dramaturgy of the classroom -- SECTION TWO Taking up positions -- playwright/dramaturg -- 4 The dramaturgy of Black culture: the Court Theatre's productions of August Wilson's Century Cycle 5 Embodied dramaturgy: the development of the indigenous play, The Patron Saint of the Lost Children -- 6 The name (isn't a) game: new explorations in trans applied theater -- 7 Translation and form -- SECTION THREE Who's "at the table"? -- 8 Crossing The Line -- 9 Depth Perception: re-thinking social roles, staging Asperger's from the inside -- 10 Decolonizing "equity, diversity, and inclusion": strategies for resisting white supremacy -- 11 Dramaturging revolution: Diana Oh's 2017: the concert and call to arms!!!!!!!!! the final installation SECTION FOUR Cultural landscapes, past, present, and future -- 12 The stakes of expanding a cultural landscape: dramaturging, adapting, and performing Gao Xinjian's The Other Shore -- 13 Visit to a zoot planet: UCSC suits up in 2017 -- 14 The Dramaturgical Impulse -- or how big is your universe? -- 15 Dethroning Ourselves from the Center
"Diversity, Inclusion and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared. The sixteen contributors to this volume offer personal windows into dramaturgy practice, encouraging theater practitioners, students, and general theater-lovers to imagine themselves as dramaturgs newly inspired by the encounters and enquiries that are the juice of contemporary theater. Each case study is written by a dramaturg whose body of work explores important issues of race, cultural equity, and culturally-specific practices within a wide range of conventions, venues, and communities. The contributors demonstrate the unique capacity of their craft to straddle the ravine between stage and stalls, intention and impact. By unpacking, in the most up-to-date ways, the central question of "Why this play, at this time, for this audience?," this collection provides valuable insights and dramaturgy tools for scholars and students of Dramaturgy, Directing and Theatre Studies"--
9780429445316 0429445318 9780429817724 042981772X 9780429817731 0429817738 9780429817717 0429817711
Drama--Technique.
Race in the theater.
Minorities in the performing arts.
Theater--Production and direction.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft
PN1660.5
808.2