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Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs' engagements with history and historiography.
List of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Caitlin A. Kane and Erin Stoneking
Part I: Production Dramaturgy: (Re)contextualizing Existing Plays
Chapter 1: Experimenting with Conceptual Casting: Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie
Khalid Y. Long
Chapter 2: (Dis)Respecting Canonical Texts
Jennifer Popple
Chapter 3: Evoked, If Not Depicted: Dramaturgy and Local Histories
Charlie Peters
Chapter 4: Punk Nuns and Early Modern Vacationlands: Dramaturgical Approaches to Staging Sor Juana in the Twenty-First Century
Alison Hyde Pascale
Chapter 5: [Re]Fashioning Mowatt’s Comedy of Manners through Adapturgy
Janna Segal
Chapter 6: History Looking Back: Dramaturging the Gaze
Yiwen Wu
Chapter 7: “To Attach Our Floating Hearts”: The Dramaturgy of Queer Historiography
Percival Hornak
Part II: New Play Dramaturgy: Staging History and Historiography
Chapter 8: Staging the Queer Archive: soldiergirls in Process
Ryan Adelsheim
Chapter 9: Dancing Augmented Archives: Movement and Technology as Dramaturgical Practice
Al Evangelista
Chapter 10: Animating Loss: The Role of Historiography in New Play Development
Erin Stoneking
Chapter 11: Dramaturgy of Internal Displacement in Nigeria
Elaigwu P. Ameh
Chapter 12: Strength in Numbers: Cultivating Dramaturgical Collaboration across Disciplines
Lindsay L. Barr
Chapter 13: Loops of Time: A Historicized Dramaturgy
Sam Redway
Part III: Dramaturgy and/as Public History: Connecting with Broader Publics
Chapter 14: Hands-On History: Engaging Historical Thinking through Dramaturgy
Elysia Segal
Chapter 15: Applying Brecht’s Anti-Spectacular Approach to Staging Fascism
Ilinca Tamara Todoruț
Chapter 16: “Beyond Land Acknowledgement”: Rendering Central Illinois History along the Potawatomi Trail of Death
Nicole Anderson Cobb
Chapter 17: A Public Historian’s Guide to Dramaturging Native Plays
Laurie Arnold
Chapter 18: Archiving AfroLatine Theatre
Daphnie Sicre
Index
About the author
Caitlin A. Kane (they/she) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism at Kent State University.
Erin Stoneking (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama.
Summary
Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs’ engagements with history and historiography.
