ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with productions that explore the formal boundaries of verse, drama, and theatre, and in which verse fuels radical and often politically motivated formal intervention, rooted in both the dramatic and the postdramatic traditions. The discussion shows that verse both facilitates a search for new hybrid forms and functions as a model for a relationship between dramatic content and form. If, as this chapter suggests, theatre is ready for a new stylized approach as a platform for a new dramatic theatre, as predicted by Hans-Thies Lehmann in Postdramatic Theatre , then the chapter offers a starting point for documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre. This final section synthesizes the book’s content and suggests further applications of verse structure as a dramaturgical device.
