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Towards an Expanded Dramaturgical Practice: A Report on ‘The Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2006

PETER ECKERSALL
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Abstract

This essay is a report on the Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project (Dramaturgies), a forum for the investigation of issues in professional dramaturgical practice in Australia. It reviews the textual orientation of historical theatre practice in Australia before describing a series of events aiming to promote a wider and more culturally interactive understanding of dramaturgy. New forms of dramaturgy arising in response to the post-dramatic turn in theatre are discussed as a basis for exploring an expanded dramaturgical practice. Proposals for a politics of dramaturgy that revive theatre as a forum for social critique conclude the essay. While specific to one set of theatre interventions, it is intended that the proposals discussed herein have wider applications.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , October 2006 , pp. 283 - 297
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International Federation for Theatre Research 2006

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Footnotes

This essay is developed from my paper titled ‘What is Dramaturgy? What is a Dramaturg?’, Realtime, 70 (December 2005–January 2006), special dramaturgy supplement. (available at www.realtimearts.net, ‘Dramaturgy Now’ link, pdf download, p. 2). The supplement features writings on the project by the Dramaturgies team and was published in Reatime and distributed widely among the Australian performance community. It also available as a pdf file at www.realtimearts.net/ ‘Dramaturgy Now’ link.