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    New Performance/New Writing

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    ISBN: 9781137445049
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    AuthorFreeman, John
    Pub Date01/12/2016
    BindingPaperback
    Pages280
    Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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    Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Each chapter explores a key aspect of theatre study, while an extensive timeline of theatre events gives a broad overview of its evolution.

    Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Terms like 'postmodern' and 'postdramatic' have their own contested and defended histories, while notions of truth in verbatim theatre are open to serious critical challenge. Theatre writing can result in no words being spoken and nothing appearing on the page, and productions are stretching the boundaries of space, place and context like never before.

    This revised and significantly expanded edition of New Performance/New Writing explores immersive and solo theatre, autoethnography, applied drama, performance writing, plot, story, narrative and devising. It presents an invaluable response to questions that arise from new theatre, prompting active reading that enhances classroom and workshop learning, and improves productivity in rehearsal.

    Each chapter explores a key aspect of theatre study, while an extensive timeline of theatre events gives a broad overview of its evolution. Case studies on practitioners as diverse as Kneehigh, Punchdrunk, Mark Ravenhill and Forced Entertainment are scattered throughout the book, along with detailed suggestions for workshops, which encourage readers to test some of the book's ideas in practice.