{"product_id":"making-contemporary-theatre-9780719074929","title":"Making contemporary theatre","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors, including Japan''s Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Québécois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off ''asides'', giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production, such as Complicite''s 2003-04 The Elephant Vanishes, allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors, plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking contemporary theatre is a rich resource f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Consistently insightful and instructive.'\u003cbr\u003eRoger Bechtel, Theatre Survey, 54 (1) 2013\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIST OF FIGURES\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE: Andy Lavender\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eWitnessing postdramatic theatre-making\u003cbr\u003eJen Harvie\u003cbr\u003e1.The Builders Association: Super Vision (2005)\u003cbr\u003eDigital dataflow and the synthesis of everything\u003cbr\u003eAndy Lavender\u003cbr\u003e2. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Myth (2007)\u003cbr\u003eMapping the multiple\u003cbr\u003eLou Cope\u003cbr\u003e3. Complicité: The Elephant Vanishes (2003\/04)\u003cbr\u003e‘The elephant and keeper have vanished completely… They will never be coming back’\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Alexander\u003cbr\u003e4. Elevator Repair Service: Cab Legs (1997) to Gatz (2006)\u003cbr\u003eReversing the ruins: the power of theatrical miscomprehension\u003cbr\u003eSara Jane Bailes\u003cbr\u003e5. Forced Entertainment: The Travels (2002)\u003cbr\u003eThe anti-theatrical director\u003cbr\u003eAlex Mermikides\u003cbr\u003e6. Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro: Une façon d’aborder l’idée de méfiance [One Way to Approach the Idea of Mistrust] (2006)\u003cbr\u003eApproaching mistrust\u003cbr\u003eLourdes Orozco\u003cbr\u003e7. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Bye Bye: the New Primitive (2001)\u003cbr\u003eTheatre of the body and cultural deconstruction\u003cbr\u003eAdam Broinowski\u003cbr\u003e8. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina: Lipsynch (2007)\u003cbr\u003ePerformance transformations and cycles\u003cbr\u003eAleksandar Saša Dundjerovic\u003cbr\u003e9. Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players: The End of Reality (2006)\u003cbr\u003eExploring acting\u003cbr\u003eSarah Gorman\u003cbr\u003e10. Not Yet It’s Difficult: Blowback (2004)\u003cbr\u003eUnmaking Blowback – a visceral process for a political theatre\u003cbr\u003ePeter Eckersall\u003cbr\u003e11. Luk Perceval: Platonov (2006)\u003cbr\u003eRules for a theatre of contemporary contemplation\u003cbr\u003eZoë Svendsen\u003cbr\u003ePOSTSCRIPT: Andy Lavender and Jen Harvie\u003cbr\u003eSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037306716503,"sku":"9780719074929","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719074929.jpg?v=1750935267","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-contemporary-theatre-9780719074929","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}