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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"postdramatic theatre"”.
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The postdramatic theatre of Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya: commitment, collaboration, and experiment in apartheid South Africa
Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya both used the postdramatic theatre, which was largely anti-elitist, anti-text, experimental and collaborative, at certain point in their literary careers. They rebelled against established conventions, and, in their own ways, produced a type of theatre that suited …
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Suzuki Tadashi's Intercultural Adaptations
Contemporary theatre is increasingly visual, an aesthetic shift that has been analyzed in, among others, Hans-Thies Lehmann’s influential Postdramatic Theatre. This shift is apparent in Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki’s intercultural adaptations, which adapt plays of the Western repertoire for …
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Barrie Kosky's theatre of post-tragic affects
This thesis takes as its focus the work of auteur theatre director Barrie Kosky. Engaging with Kosky s work in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Kosky s radical reconfigurations of classical tragedy introduced a new mode of performance to the contemporary Australian stage that I call …
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Devising Solo Performance: A Practitioner’s Enquiry
… as a means for specifying a category of theatre-making that has been little discussed, compared to group devising, in existing literature on devising and postdramatic theatre. Primary source material was obtained through carrying out extended interviews with five experienced British …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… between Commedia’s core principles and Lehmann’s postdramatic theatre. Rather than a reinterpretation or re-contextualisation, my work can be described as a reinvention of Commedia Masks through a rediscovery of Commedia dell’Arte’s principles, as discussed by Flaminio Scala in his prologue to Il …
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Space Dramaturgy: Exploring the perfomativity of space in interactive art
… practice. It is supported by theories of postdramatic theatre (Lehmann, 2006), and new dramaturgy (Van Kerkhoven, 2009a). The theory also develops the compositional element for a space dramaturgy. The elements of body and space are conceptually connected through the phenomenological …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
… thesis offers a unique perspective on musical theatre by examining its conventions through the lens of silent era cinema. Accordingly, visual tropes, performance techniques and sound phenomena that are shared between European and North American silent films and contemporary musical theatre …