For Emancipated Dramaturgy
I. The dramaturg as emancipated spectator I will begin with this assumption: Today the...
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Dramaturgy
Jorge Dubatti’s “Escuela de Espectadores” Sparks a Passion for Theater in Buenos Aires
Independent theater in Buenos Aires is currently thriving, despite a number of severe economic...
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Contemporary New Play Development in Italy: A Playwright Shares Her Experience
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
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PlayPenn’s Rent-a-Dramaturg program
Dramaturgs have always been part of each team working at PlayPenn. But since 2012, its...
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Dramaturgical Practice – Some Thoughts On Working On Actions in Performance
For three years, between 2013-2016, we regularly invited theatre-makers, choreographers,...
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The Labor of Sense-Making
The labor of sense-making On spectatorship and the oracular potential of art To make sense We are...
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Welsh Theatre – Curse or Blessing?
“Though we have a nascent theatre tradition, we do have a long tradition of performance…Our writers are indicative of a nation that is still wrestling…with positive identifications of self.” – Ian Rowlands
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Kyôgen Comedies’ Embedded Dramaturgy: 13 Lessons for Theater Practitioners
Kyôgen (狂言) are short, stylized comedies performed between somber masked-dance noh (能) for over...
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Good Dramaturgy Is Invisible: Friedrich Schirmer, Marcus Grube & Judith Engel
What can good dramaturgy achieve? For the presentation of the Marie Zimmermann Fellowship for...
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Talking Dramaturgy with Gareth Vile: Uncertainty, Confusion, Parody
Interview with Gareth Vile, Theatre Editor for the List, former Theatre Editor for the Skinny and...
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Mark Bly in conversation with Katalin Trencsényi: “Questioning Spirit”—Dramaturgy in America
Mark Bly is an American dramaturg, editor, and lecturer. He was the chair of the Playwriting...
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Decentring Dance Dramaturgy
Multiple approaches in contemporary performance and in dance performance, in particular, are part...
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From Death Cult To Hope
“The past is a horrible, fuzzy abyss; what steers into that twilight, ceases to exist–like it has...
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Dramaturgy Without a Dramaturg
Wherever dramaturgy is conceived as a practice of thought in advance of the event, it will be...
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The Dramaturgical Notion of Counter-text
The role of the dramaturg within text-based theatre is currently prescriptive and limiting. There...
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On Dramaturgy: Requirement. Excessive Demand. Living Art.
Knowing literature inside out, developing the repertoire, making translations…the list of skills...
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Dramaturgy Award for Geoff Proehl
TACOMA – Geoff Proehl, professor of theatre arts at University of Puget Sound, has been selected...
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“Kings of War” – A Dramaturgical Perspective
As part of a series of essays on Ivo van Hove’s dramaturgy, Duska Radosavljevic unpicks the...
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Immersive Theatre: Towards a Dramaturgy of Participation
As participatory theatre saturates the mainstream, here’s Persis Jade Maravala and Jorge...
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Playwriting Doesn’t Get Better Or Worse–But It Does Evolve
This is a long-read essay, the third in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Read...
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