ABSTRACT
Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.
The sixteen contributors to this volume offer personal windows into dramaturgy practice, encouraging theater practitioners, students, and general theater-lovers to imagine themselves as dramaturgs newly inspired by the encounters and enquiries that are the juice of contemporary theater. Each case study is written by a dramaturg whose body of work explores important issues of race, cultural equity, and culturally-specific practices within a wide range of conventions, venues, and communities. The contributors demonstrate the unique capacity of their craft to straddle the ravine between stage and stalls, intention and impact.
By unpacking, in the most up-to-date ways, the central question of “Why this play, at this time, for this audience?,” this collection provides valuable insights and dramaturgy tools for scholars and students of Dramaturgy, Directing, and Theater Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section One|28 pages
Permission to speak
chapter 2|10 pages
Dramaturgy as prophecy
section Section Two|26 pages
Taking up positions – playwright/dramaturg
chapter 4|7 pages
The dramaturgy of Black culture
chapter 5|6 pages
Embodied dramaturgy
section Section Three|40 pages
Who’s “at the table”?
chapter 10|10 pages
Decolonizing “equity, diversity, and inclusion”
chapter 11|8 pages
Dramaturging revolution
section Section Four|30 pages
Cultural landscapes, past, present, and future