1st Edition

Performance Research: Letters from Europe

Edited By Ric Allsopp, Richard Gough, Claire MacDonald Copyright 1997
    140 Pages
    by Routledge

    136 Pages
    by Routledge

    Europe is a continent in a state of rapid - and frequently unsettling, transition. In the past five years, a total of twelve new states have emerged in a continent in which only five countries can boast of having had stable borders for more than a hundred years. Accompanied by in-depth articles and interviews discussing European performance today, Letters From Europe uses the framing device of the letter - letters from theatre makers, artists and critics - to present an intensive, up-to-date survey of the performance forms of the new Europe and their relationship with the past.

    Articles in Volume 2:1 * A Letter from Poland - Zbigniew Warpechowski * The Present of Memory: Théâtre Demodesastr in Performance - Eleanor Margolies * A Letter from Holland - Dragan Klaic * The Essential Theatre of Needcompany - Rudi Laermans * Letters to and from Hamburg - Johannes Schröder * Kids and Pets: the authentic in contemporary performance - Christine Gaigg * Writing - Text - Performance - Ric Allsopp * A Letter from Livod Randa - Kirsten Winderlich * From Logos to Landscape: text in contemporary Dramaturgy - Hans-Thies Lehmann * Text as Landscape - Heiner Goebbels * Performed Through Grammar for Performance Writers: 2 - John Hall * The Scream - Emil Hrvatin * Displacing the Haptic: performance art, the photographic document and the 1970s - Kathy O'Dell * A Letter from Belgrade: the hunchback and the whore - Liljana Sedlar * A Letter from Bosnia - Mark Etchells * The Night and the Dreams: a conversation with Esteve Graset - Antonio Fernandez Lera * A Letter from Europe - Yu Jian

    Biography

    Ric Allsopp Founder of Writing Research Associates and Research Fellow, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes UK. Nick Kaye University of Warwick, Coventry UK.