ABSTRACT
Many theatre makers act as physical dramaturgs in their acting, directing, design, or devising work. The founding artistic director of Dell’Arte International reflects on her own practice and that of other contemporary artists. Physical dramaturgy acknowledges the phenomenal world in which everything is conditioned by space, by laws of nature concerning growth and tension in interaction with the spatial environment. Part II is a case study of her devised production, Elisabeth’s Book, demonstrating how physical dramaturgy contributed to each step of its development via the process articulated by Dell’Arte’s founder Carlo Mazzone-Clementi, “Image, Idea, Concept, Design.”
