Postdramatic Theatre and Form

Michael Shane Boyle is a Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Matt Cornish is Assistant Professor of Theater History at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theatre after 1989. Brandon Woolf is a theatre artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at New York University, USA, where he also serves as Director of the Program in Dramatic Literature.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Form and Postdramatic TheatreMichael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish and Brandon Woolf2. Drama: The Szondi ConnectionElinor FuchsPart One: Formal Aspects3. Text: The Director’s NotebookEdith Cassiers, Timmy De Laet and Luk Van den Dries4. Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-Collapse SeattleJasmine Mahmoud5. Time: Unsettling the Capitalist PresentPhilip Watkinson6. Body: Tadeusz Kantor and the Posthuman StageMagda Romanska7. Media: IntermissionNicholas RidoutPart Two: Social Formations8. Festivals: Conventional Disruption, or, Why Ann Liv Young Ruined Rebecca Patek’s ShowAndrew Friedman9. Galleries: Resituating the Postdramatic RealRyan Anthony Hatch10. Process: ‘Set Writing’ in Contemporary French TheatreKate Bredeson11. Choreography: Performative Dance HistoriesYvonne Hardt12. Migration: Common and Uncommon Grounds at Berlin’s Gorki TheaterMatt Cornish13. Elder Care: Performing Dementia - Toward a Postdramatic SubjectivityStanton B. Garner, Jr.NotesIndex

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