This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in
relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized
age, and how they, in form and content, respond to this environment
and open up new critical possibilities in text and performance. The
study combines theatre and media theory through the innovative concept
of 'mediatized dramaturgy' and offers conceptual reflections on the
ways in which a playtext negotiates the new reality of contemporary
culture. The book scrutinizes the form of playtexts and works through
the exchange between text and performance by exploring contemporary
works such as Simon Stephens's _Pornography_, Caryl Churchill's _Love
and Information_, and David Greig's _The Yes/No Plays_, and their
selected productions. Offering a pioneering intervention that expands
discussions about the mediatization of theatre, and new playwriting,
_Mediatized Dramaturgy_proposes areas for discussion that appeal to
researchers, audiences and practitioners with an interest in the
sub-field of media and performance, and British and North American
drama and theatre.
Media technologies and their socio-cultural repercussions have
increasingly influenced theatre, particularly since the ubiquitous
prevalence of digital technologies from the 1990s onwards.
Consequently, new modes such as digital and intermedial theatre have
come to populate and transform the theatre practice and scholarship.
In this changing theatrical landscape, what has happened to plays in
the historically text-oriented British theatre? How has playtext
changed in an age of theatre marked by mediatization and its
possibilities?
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The Evolution of Plays in the Media Age
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350031166
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter