{"product_id":"decentered-playwriting-9781032218083","title":"Decentered Playwriting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDecentered Playwriting\u003c\/em\u003e investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques by introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods, traditions, and ways of studying, and teaching diverse narratological practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting, dramatic structure, storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, or as part of their own professional practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the great challenges for 21st century writers is how one forges one's own poetics to resist the 'realistic', well-made play, and the strictures of Aristotle and Stanislavski. How can we write for our communities and embrace the rich legacies of non-Aristotelian practice? What extraordinary conversations are gathered here in these pages.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaula Vogel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of \u003cem\u003eHow I Learned to Drive\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndecent\u003c\/em\u003e, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the kind of playwriting education I wish that I would have had. It makes me excited for the next generation of theater makers who will emerge from studying this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarissa FastHorse \u003c\/b\u003e(Sicangu Lakota), MacArthur Fellow and playwright of \u003cem\u003eThe Thanksgiving Play\u003c\/em\u003e, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers us a radically hopeful vision of how we might teach playwriting—and think about the well-making of plays—if we wish to disrupt the relationship between systems of oppression and systems of theatre-making.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Sandberg-Zakian\u003c\/b\u003e, Artistic Director, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Boston University MFA Playwriting Program, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDecentered Playwriting \u003c\/i\u003erepresents an extraordinary gathering of diverse scholars and artists, all posing fundamental questions about how drama might be conceived and created above, beyond, and without the hegemony of Aristotelian thinking. The collection addresses a deeply felt pedagogical need that has been left untended for far too long, and in this respect promises to become an essential text in the teaching of playwriting and dramaturgy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt Borreca\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and MFA Programs in Playwriting \u0026amp; Dramaturgy, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDecentered Playwriting\u003c\/em\u003e leaps over the anxiety and reductive thinking swirling around our 'diversity problem' by showing how much we all have to gain by decolonizing our craft. There’s no theater maker or theater educator in this country not wrestling in some way with these issues right now. This book offers a revelatory and practical vision of the way forward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Kron\u003c\/strong\u003e, Tony Award-winning lyricist of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An invaluable resource for those looking to depart from received ways of play-making, either in pursuit of new collaborative approaches or alternative forms of storytelling. This will be a useful guidebook for those venturing off the beaten path.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex McLean\u003c\/b\u003e, Zuppa Theatre, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Decenter(Ed) Playwriting: Alternative Tools, Techniques, and Structures\u003c\/strong\u003e; 1. Playwrights as Architects of Third Space: The Dramaturgy of Japanese Traditional Performing Arts; 2. The Dramaturgy of Nothingness; 3. Poetic Expression in Kānaka Maoli Playwriting Praxis; 4. On Disaesthetics in Hip Hop Dramaturgy: Ruminations on Thinking and Doing; 5. Context\/Culture: Using Some of the Complex Dramaturgy of Black Theatre of the 19th Century to Build Contemporary Work; 6. Decentering Humans: Writing Our Way Out of the Apocalypse; 7. Write Where You Are; \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Decenter(Ing) Playwriting: Community Practices, Ritual, and Healing\u003c\/strong\u003e; 8. Horizontal Theatre: Democratic Practices of the New Docudrama; 9. Toward Self-Construction: A Filipinx Dramaturgy in the Diaspora; 10. Writing with Irene: Sustaining the Fornés Playwriting Method; 11. First People First: Community-Based Theatre Praxis in Native American and Indigenous Spaces; 12. \"Aruku-Improv,\" Playwriting and Performance Devising Dramaturgy \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Case Studies in Decentered Processes: Models and Testimonies\u003c\/strong\u003e; 13. Outsider Indian: A Decentered Narrative on the Long Journey of Native Playwriting; 14. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Zimbabwean \u003ci\u003eNdebele Izaga\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eA Conversation on Playwriting as Auto-Ethnographic Experiment; 15. Unarcheology: Anticolonial Aesthetics and Putting Things Back in the Ground; 16. Indigenous Placemaking and Storyweaving: An Interview with Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna, Rappahannock) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018907025751,"sku":"9781032218083","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032218083.jpg?v=1750778612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decentered-playwriting-9781032218083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}