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Readings

Summer 2017

Theatre Criticism and Festival Dramaturgy in the Digital Age

Ritual/Theatre/Performance/Spectacle/Festival

 

Peter Brook "The Empty Space" Simon&Schuster. Touchstone Edition 1996.

 

Guy Debord Society of Spectacle Retrieved on February 13th, 2009 from www.bopsecrets.org theanarchistlibrary.org

 

Festivalising! : theatrical events, politics and culture. Edited by Temple Hauptfleisch[et al.] Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

  • Temple Hauptfleisch " Festivals as Eventifying Systems" 39-47

  • Willmar Sauters "Festivals as Theatrical Events: Building Theories" 17-25 (Pdf)

  • Henri Schoenmakers "Festivals, Theatrical Events and Communicative Interactions" 27-37 (Pdf)

 

The Festivalization of Culture. edited by Andy Bennett, Jodie Taylor and Ian Woodward. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.

  • Andy Bennett and Ian Woodward "Festival Spaces, Identity, Experience and Belonging" 11-25 (Pdf)

  • Michelle Duffy "The Emotional Ecologies of Festivals" 229-250 (Pdf)

Performance Analysis

 

Richard Paul Knowles "Introduction" p.1-7 and "Theory: Towards a materialist semiotic" p.9-23 Reading the Material Theatre. Cambridge University Press 2004. p.1-23 (Pdf)

 

Patrice Pavis "Theatre Analysis: Some Questions and a Questionnaire"

New Theatre Quarterly 1.2 (1985): 208-12. Print

 

Jürs-Munby, Karen. "Introduction". Postdramatic Theatre. (electronic reading) Ed. Hans-Thies Lehmann. New York: Routledge, 2006. 1-16.

 

Dixon, Steve. “The Body” Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 115-134. Web

 

Additional Resource

Performance analysis [electronic resource] : an introductory coursebook /edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

 

"Structural principles and aesthetic questions" section among other key terms in Dictionary of the theatre [electronic resource]: terms, concepts, and analysis /Patrice Pavis ; translated by Christine Shantz ; preface by Marvin Carlson. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Dramaturgy

 

Cathy Turner and Synne K. Behrndt. dramaturgy and performance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2008

  • What is Dramaturgy? 17-37. (Pdf)

  • The Production Dramaturg. 146-167. (Pdf)

 

Sky Gilbert. Dramaturgy for radical theatre. Canadian Theatre Review, (87), 1996. 25-27.

 

Paula Danckert (Company Dramaturg and Associate Artist ) The role of the Dramaturg  at the National Arts Centre Web. Accessed: Sept.3, 2012.

Globalization/Transnationalism/Identities

 

Christina S. McMahon "Introduction — Global Casting Calls: Performing (Trans)National Identity on Festival Circuits" Christina S. McMahon Recasting transnationalism through performance [electronic resource] : theatre festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil /, Theater and Dance, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 1-34.

 

Amanda Rogers "Transnational Theatre Networks." Performing Asian transnationalisms [electronic resource] : theatre, identity and the geographies of performance New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. 23-45

 

Performance, politics and activism [electronic resource] /

edited By Peter Lichtenfels and John Rouse. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Methodology: Practice-as-Research

 

Matt Ratto (2011): "Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life", The Information Society: An International Journal, 27:4, 252-260.

 

THE CRITICAL ENGINEERING MANIFESTO, 2011.

 

Cartographies. – Terms for finding/charting the way(s). Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research. - Scholarly Acts and Creative Carthographies. Edited by Shannon Rose Riley and Lynette Hunter. Palgrave Macmillian, New York. 2009. 125-153. (Pdf)

  • Kim Yasuda. Action Research. 125-127

  • Nick Kaye. Disjunction: Performing Media Space. 128-130

  • Peter Lichtenfels. Embodiment. 131-133

  • Baz Kershaw. Environment. 134-136

  • Shannon Rose Riley. Lab/Studio. 137-141

  • Susan Kelly. Medium. 142-144

  • Della Pollock. Oral History. 145-148

  • Ilya Noé. Site Particular. 149-150

  • Lynette Hunter. Situated Knowledge. 151-153

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