ABSTRACT
What some theatre makers are calling horizontal theatre comprises an array of practices that value process, emergence, and agency over product in an attempt to reduce, eliminate, or disrupt hierarchical power structures in the creation of new theatre works. This chapter will offer playwrights and theatre makers alike a working definition of the practice, a model for implementation, as well as several examples and exercises to reduce or challenge hierarchies as a way to create more egalitarian new works for the theatre.
