Focus on Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Mulley
June 27, 2025
Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed. Comprising chapters by writers from across North America and ...
The Dramaturgy of History
1st Edition
By Tom Bryant
June 27, 2025
In this book, dramaturg Tom Bryant shares with readers and writers his insights into the process of historical adaptation. The book uses case studies from Bryant's collaborations with playwrights on successful Broadway and regional productions to work through the fundamental questions of historical...
Dramaturgy: An Anatomy of Dramatic Forms
1st Edition
By Michael Evans
April 25, 2025
How are plays constructed? Taking this essential question and looking at a broad range of Western plays, from Greek tragedies through Ibsen, we can discern a remarkably stable set of dramaturgical principles. Some dramatists adhere to traditional principles to create meaning, while others delight ...
Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archive
1st Edition
Edited
By Caitlin A. Kane, Erin Stoneking
October 22, 2024
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. Dramaturgs play a vital role in amplifying and activating theatre’s unique potential to contribute to the pressing ...
New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera: The Practitioners’ Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jingyi Zhang
September 16, 2024
New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners (composers, librettists, directors, producers, singers, dramaturgs, and administrators) who provide valuable first-hand insight...
The Dramaturgy of Performing Science: New Work in Interdisciplinary Contexts
1st Edition
By Jules Odendahl-James
September 02, 2024
This is a concise survey of new play projects that bring together the worlds of science and performance, and the benefits that dramaturgical praxis can bring to both disciplines. Three approaches common to both performance and science – collaboration, experimentation, and interpretation – are ...
Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy: Case Studies from the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippa Kelly
January 21, 2023
Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.The sixteen contributors to this volume offer ...
Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
By Kasia Lech
January 09, 2023
Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new...
Principles of Dramaturgy
1st Edition
By Robert Scanlan
June 30, 2021
In Principles of Dramaturgy, Robert Scanlan explains the invariant principles behind the construction of stage and performance events of any style or modality. This book contains all that is essential for training a professional stage director and/or dramaturg, including the "plot-bead" technique ...
Shakespeare in Three Dimensions: The Dramaturgy of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
1st Edition
By Robert Blacker
December 18, 2020
In Shakespeare in Three Dimensions, Robert Blacker asks us to set aside what we think we know about Shakespeare and rediscover his plays on the page, and as Shakespeare intended, in the rehearsal room and in performance. That process includes stripping away false traditions that have obscured his ...