Research Catalog

Title

Innovation in five acts : strategies for theatre and performance / edited by Caridad Svich.

Publication

• New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2015.
• ©2015

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Svich, Caridad

Description

xv, 221 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

TCG sourcebook

Subject

• Theater > Production and direction
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Note

• "Editor Caridad Svich has gathered forty-three essays from admired theater professionals that comprise a volume of inspiring and innovative techniques for creating theater. Inside are words of wisdom and advice from experienced playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors and founders--each sharing the creative challenges and triumphs of developing original works for today's stages, wherever they might be. Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for her play GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue. At play in the commonwealth / Caridad Svich -- Act one: Focus. Innovation in 17 (with a knowing nod to Bill Drummond) / Stephen Wrentmore -- Whither innovation? / Arthur Bartow -- Theatrical innovation: whose job it is? / Howard Shalwitz -- Innovation and catastrophe / John Biguenet -- Pull focus / Jeff McMahon -- On the virtues of 'open source' innovation in the arts / Duška Radosavljević -- Arts entrepreneurship: you are closer than you think / Jim Hart and Gary D. Beckman -- Agents of change / Dominic D'Andrea -- Act two: Being with. What can we do? / Andy Smith -- Considering imagination / Katie Pearl -- Towards a slow theatre / Lisa Schlesinger -- Cooking oil / Deborah Asiimwe and Emily Mendelsohn -- Backward country / Elaine Avila -- The audience: friend, foe or innocent bystander? / Leila Buck -- Bills, e-motions, manifestos / Saviana Stanescu -- Eliot forgot the reluctant vampires / Ian Rowlands -- Fornes and artistic mentorship / Anne García-Romero -- Aligning a vision / Caridad Svich -- Act three: Task. Innovation in writing / Octavio Solis -- Write it yourself! / Oliver Mayer -- On eco-theater / Jeremy Pickard -- Artistry and innovation / Heather Woodbury -- Concurrencies / Aaron Landsman -- Taking control of the narrative / E.M. Lewis -- If someone calls my name / Zac Kline -- Violence and theatre-making / John Moletress -- Beyond the 'dead playwright' approach / Mariana Carreño King -- Act four: At play. An educated gamble / Daniel Gallant -- The essentiality of innovation / Daniel Brunet -- Against mastery / David Herskovits -- Innovation/Collaboration / Michael John Garcés -- Doing the work / Rachel Jendrzejewski -- Yay, innovation! Wait, innovation? / Chris Wells -- Vernacular theatre and the great feast / Catherine Love -- Two launch pads / Pedro de Senna -- The act of introducing something new / Kali Quinn -- 'Tis new to thee / Mark Schultz -- Act five: Let's. Geographies of language / John Jesurun in an interview with Caridad Svich -- Writing as global engagement / Ayad Akhtar in interview with Caridad Svich -- A book group for theatre / Maddy Costa -- Let's / Julie Felise Dubiner -- Epilogue. Who gets to play? / August Schulenburg.

ISBN

• 9781559365116
• 1559365110
• 9781559368407 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015016598

OCLC

• 908287003
• SCSB-12620943

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library