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Informationen zum Autor Maria M. Delgado is Director of Research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York Klappentext A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. Offers an examination of how to make theatre in a time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at the heart of the book's mission. Asks questions such as: where is theatre now taking place?; what is the relationship between play and performance?; how does funding work?; what states does theatre flourish under?; and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre' should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a vigorous 'theatre of crisis'?. The international list of contributors includes Jim Carmody, Phyllis Nagy, Michael Billington, Max Stafford-Clark, Peter Sellars, Dragan Klaic, Goat Island, Erik Ehn and many others, making up a vast array of practising artists, thinkers, and scholars. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice! economics! and issues related to identity! politics! and technology contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is! where it has been and where it might be going. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsTheatre in crisis?: Performance manifestos for a new century - snapshots of a time - Maria M. Delgado and Caridad SvichTheatre in crisis? Living memory in an unstable time - Caridad SvichSome quick thoughts on theatre and its future - Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, Craig LucasCrisis as practice: Strategies, concepts and working decisionsThe comforts of crisis - Jim CarmodySome words about the theater today - Roberta LevitowSeeing through the national and global stereotypes: British theatre in crisis - Peter Lichtenfels and Lynette HunterThe state of reviewing today - Michael BillingtonCritical path - Claire H. MacDonaldThose who can do teach - Anna FurseHold your nerve: Notes for a young playwright - Phyllis NagyAgainst pessimism - Max Stafford-ClarkTheatre and identity: Negotiating doubt and passionMore enterprise in walking naked - Len BerkmanEducating the audience: Sharing the process - DD KuglerOne the death of theatre: A call to action - Tori Haring-SmithDancing with the dead man: Notes on a theatre for the future of Europe - John LondonBlack Theatre at the turn of the millenium - Kia CorthronThe crisis of label - Alice TuanNotes on opera at the end of the century - Ricardo SzwarcerWhat is to be done? : Theatre off the mapThe question of culture - Peter SellarsThe crisis of theater? The theatre of crisis! - Dragan KlaicScavenging for home (or how I learned to take refuge in live theater while worrying about the bomb) - Lisa D'AmourStealing kisses - Paul HeritageA theatre of monsters: Live performance in the age of digital media - Matthew CauseyThe moment of realised actuality - Andy LavenderLooking forward, looking back: Theatre and the spiritual, messages to the new worldWhen an angel goes through the stage - Jon FosseBad Glamour - Erik EhnHeat Bath - Matthew MaguireTheatre of the mind: A fugue in two parts - Shelley BercAn evangelical capitalist: Message in a bottle to the next millenium of Robinson Crusoes in proscenium - Ruth MargraffPoor Toms a cold: Reflections on the modern theater in crisis - Martin EpsteinThe theatre of good intentions - Mac WellmanLetter to a young practitioner - Goat IslandAfterword...
