Decentered playwriting : alternative techniques for the stage /

"Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies. A collection of short es...

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Other Authors: Dunn, Carolyn M. (Editor), Holmes, Eric Micha (Editor), Hunter, Les (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forward : centering myself / David Henry Hwang
  • Introduction : breaking, examining, reassembling : an introduction to decentered playwriting / Carolyn Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter
  • Playwrights as architects of third space : the dramaturgy of Japanese traditional performing arts / Sarah Johnson
  • The dramaturgy of nothingness / Abhishek Mujamdar
  • Poetic expressions in Kanaka Maoli playwriting praxis / Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker
  • On disaesthetics in hip hop dramaturgy : ruminations on thinking and doing / Wind Dell Woods
  • Context/culture : understanding the complex dramaturgy of Black theatre of the 19th century / Dominic Taylor
  • Decentering humans / Chantal Bilodeau
  • Write where you are / Hank Willenbrink
  • Techniques and strategies of vertical theatre : decentering investigative playwriting / Les Hunter
  • Connecting to the past, constructing the self : ethnoautobiography in the Filipinx diaspora as a model for decolonial theatre practices / Luz Twigg
  • Writing with Irene : sustaining the Fornés playwriting method / Anne Garcia-Romero & Mariló Núñez
  • First people first : community-based theatre praxis in Native American/indigenous spaces / Carolyn Dunn
  • Aruku Improv / Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James
  • Outsider Indian : a decentered narrative on the long journey of native playwriting / Diane Glancy
  • Collaborative Isaga / Butshilo Nleya and Bridget Foreman
  • Unarcheology : anticolonial queer aesthetics and putting things back in the ground / Fargo Tbakhi
  • Indigeneity 101 : an interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant (Kuna, Rappahannock) / Sarah dAngelo.