New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice

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Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance demand new approaches and sensibilities. New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has been transformed. Edited by Katalin Trencsnyi and Bernadette Cochrane, New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice provides an unrivalled resource for practitioners, scholars, and students.

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The broad range of perspectives on new dramaturgy presented in this book provides fertile ground for new thinking and will be a useful resource for scholars, dramaturgs, practitioners, and students alike. -- Seda Ilter * New Theatre Quarterly *
In the foreword to their edited collection, Katalin Trencsenyi and Bernadette Cochrane explain the term New Dramaturgy defined as a flexible concept, ranging across diverse practices, acknowledging coexisting contradictory ideas and theories which combine three important characteristics: they are postmimetic, they embrace interculturalism and they are process-conscious (p. xii, italics in original). Working from this premise, the volume presents fifteen essays by contributors [that] can be divided into essays that focus heavily on a description of practice and essays that deal with dramaturgy on a more theoretical level. -- Ann-Christine Simke * Theatre Research International *
Theres something inordinately fascinating in the differing approaches of the practitioners, critics and academics in this book to the subject of New Dramaturgy, but rather than trying to iron out those creases, they are laid bare by association. -- Dan Hutton, UK * http://dan-hutton.co.uk/ *
New Dramaturgy, edited by Katalin Trencsnyi and Bernadette Cochraine, not only orientates the reader in the dramaturgical landscape of contemporary theatre, dance theatre, experimental theatre, and site specific theatre, but also demonstrates that the search for new paths, risk taking and experimentation is very much a defining element of the renewal of the art of theatre and performance. -- Pter Mller * Buksz *

Author Bio

Katalin Trencsnyi is a London-based dramaturg. She completed her PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) at the Etvs Lornd University, Budapest. As a freelance dramaturg, Katalin has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Courtyard Theatre, Deafinitely Theatre, Corali Dance Company, and Company of Angels amongst others. Katalin co-founded the Dramaturgs' Network with Hanna Slttne in 2001, and has worked on its various committees ever since. From 2010 to 2012 Katalin served as President of the Dramaturgs Network. Katalin is one of the contributors to the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy (2014). Her monograph on contemporary dramaturgical practices, Dramaturgy in the Making, is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2015. Bernadette Cochrane is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. As a freelance director and dramaturg she has worked for several independent companies in both Australia and the United Kingdom. She co-convenes the Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. Bernadette has edited a special issue of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2011, Vol. 4 No. 3), and has a chapter in Invisible Presences: Translation, Dramaturgy and Performance (2014). She has an article forthcoming considering the recently proliferating practice of screening live performances (primarily of opera, theatre, and dance) in cinemas, in the journal, Adaptation (2014).