Towards an Analytic Dramaturgy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards an Analytic Dramaturgy write by Brice Wayne Ezell. This book was released on 2017. Towards an Analytic Dramaturgy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the growing literature on the subject, scholars of drama and philosophy have almost entirely avoided discussing analytic philosophy. Although not of concern to most dramatists, analytic philosophy—a key development in the discipline during the 20th century—is central to the theatre of Tom Stoppard, who has written numerous plays that either engage with analytic thought or feature analytic philosophers as main characters. Yet in the critical account of Stoppard's philosophical plays, scant few talk about how Stoppard's discourse with philosophy centers on analytic thought. Grouping six of Stoppard's works across several media into the "analytic plays," this paper argues that analytic philosophy affords Stoppard a wealth of unique dramatic opportunities. Of the six analytic plays, which consist of Dogg's Hamlet, Jumpers, Professional Foul, Hapgood, Darkside, and The Hard Problem, the radio drama Darkside best exemplifies Stoppard's analytic dramaturgy through its satiric use of "the trolley problem," the most famous thought experiment in analytic ethics. Stoppard utilizes the trolley problem as the dramatic scenario of Darkside, a radio play wherein he lampoons the trolley problem's inability to meaningfully frame ethical issues. Darkside tells the audience that far-fetched analytic thought experiments like the trolley problem are harmful for good philosophy while also showing that these thought experiments offer meaningful dramaturgical value for the theatre, particularly for the "drama of ideas." In doing so, Stoppard bridges the oft-discussed divide between theatre and philosophy. For Stoppard, the implausible yet imaginative scenarios devised by analytic philosophers are an unwitting case of philosophy and theatre working alongside each other. Darkside does not reject analytic thought, even as it parodies it; instead, it devises limitations on the applicability of analytic thought to the real world, while extracting from analytic philosophy dramatic tools that can be seen in Stoppard's analytic plays
Dramaturgy of Form
Dramaturgy of Form - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dramaturgy of Form write by Kasia Lech. This book was released on 2021-03-01. Dramaturgy of Form available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Serving theatre-makers, scholars, and students working with classical and contemporary verse and poetry in performance contexts; practitioners and academics of aural and oral dramaturgies; voice and verse-speaking coaches; and actors seeking the creative opportunities that verse offers, Dramaturgy of Form reveals verse as a tool for innovation and transformation that is at the forefront of contemporary practices and experiences.
The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy
The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy write by Magda Romanska. This book was released on 2014-08-07. The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years, and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; from dance and multimedia to filmmaking and robotics. In our global, mediated context of multinational group collaborations that dissolve traditional divisions of roles as well as unbend previously intransigent rules of time and space, the dramaturg is also the ultimate globalist: intercultural mediator, information and research manager, media content analyst, interdisciplinary negotiator, social media strategist. This collection focuses on contemporary dramaturgical practice, bringing together contributions not only from academics but also from prominent working dramaturgs. The inclusion of both means a strong level of engagement with current issues in dramaturgy, from the impact of social media to the ongoing centrality of interdisciplinary and intermedial processes. The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function, verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach. Magda Romanska is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, and Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera. Her books include The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012), Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012), and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2014).
A Theory of Dramaturgy
A Theory of Dramaturgy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theory of Dramaturgy write by Janek Szatkowski. This book was released on 2019-04-10. A Theory of Dramaturgy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory. This is a wide-ranging theory with historical and contemporary perspectives on dramaturgy, rather than simply a how-to book. Dramaturgy began in ancient Greece, born from experimentation with democracy and commentary in the theatre on the human condition. The term itself has seen constant evolution, but thanks to its introduction into common English usage within the last three decades, it has gained new importance. Dramaturgy draws focus to the communication of communication, and in theatre it examines how moving bodies, voice, sound, and light can tell a story and affect values. Beyond the theatre, in daily life, dramaturgy becomes a question of "performativity", as we constantly have to act in relation to the roles that we occupy. It is because of this that the way in which society describes itself to itself is not just a matter for scientists and theorists, but for all of those who are met on a daily basis with devised, staged, and directed versions of important values and events in our contemporary lives. Ideal for both scholars and students, A Theory of Dramaturgy explains how to approach the values, strategies, and theories that are essential to understanding arts and media, and investigates what art should do in the current world.
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility
Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility write by Geoffrey S. Proehl. This book was released on 2008. Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility begins with a moment in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra says to Antony, "Not know me yet?" With these four words Cleopatra poses a simple but fundamental human problem: What can we know? She and Antony have known each other for years, at times gloriously - emotionally, mentally, and in the archaic sense of the word, physically - but still the challenge of knowing hangs in the air. Cleopatra's question reminds us that knowledge is not simple: that it is as likely to create yearning as satisfaction; that it is not confined to any one part of the self; that it is far from intellect alone. It reminds us as do most great plays - that life is part wonder, part terror." "What we can know? This study - aimed at students, teachers, and theater artists - suggests that he attempt to know the dramaturgy of a play is little different from the attempt to know another person for whom we care."--BOOK JACKET.
