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Informationen zum Autor Jen Harvie is Reader in Theatre and Performance in the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London. Andy Lavender is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Dean of Research at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London Klappentext Reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. This book offers insights into the innovative methods used by some of the most influential theatre companies! including the UK's Complicite and Forced Entertainment and New York's The Builders Association. Zusammenfassung Reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. This book offers insights into the innovative methods used by some of the most influential theatre companies! including the UK's Complicite and Forced Entertainment and New York's The Builders Association. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF FIGURESCONTRIBUTORSPREFACE: Andy LavenderACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIntroductionWitnessing postdramatic theatre-makingJen Harvie1.The Builders Association: Super Vision (2005)Digital dataflow and the synthesis of everythingAndy Lavender2. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Myth (2007)Mapping the multipleLou Cope3. Complicité: The Elephant Vanishes (2003/04)'The elephant and keeper have vanished completely... They will never be coming back'Catherine Alexander4. Elevator Repair Service: Cab Legs (1997) to Gatz (2006)Reversing the ruins: the power of theatrical miscomprehensionSara Jane Bailes5. Forced Entertainment: The Travels (2002)The anti-theatrical directorAlex Mermikides6. Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro: Une façon d'aborder l'idée de méfiance [One Way to Approach the Idea of Mistrust] (2006)Approaching mistrustLourdes Orozco7. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Bye Bye: the New Primitive (2001)Theatre of the body and cultural deconstructionAdam Broinowski8. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina: Lipsynch (2007)Performance transformations and cyclesAleksandar SaSa Dundjerovic9. Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players: The End of Reality (2006)Exploring actingSarah Gorman10. Not Yet It's Difficult: Blowback (2004)Unmaking Blowback - a visceral process for a political theatrePeter Eckersall11. Luk Perceval: Platonov (2006)Rules for a theatre of contemporary contemplationZoë SvendsenPOSTSCRIPT: Andy Lavender and Jen HarvieSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYIndex...
