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Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in making a theatre performance situated at the crossroads of multiple theatre forms and performative devices.This book explores how these forms and devices are employed, challenged, experimented with, and reflected upon in the work of migrant theatre by performance and dance artists. Meerzon and ...

American scenarist Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the legendary TV series West Wing, could be considered as a genius of political dialogue. His subtle mixture of deliberations taking place in the coulisses of power around the White House and the semi-romantic stories of his characters have proven to be extremely efficient for an audience. The skills of Sorkin are based upon a particularly constructivist idea of political negotiation: politicians do ...

Although historical research into twentieth-century theatrical tribunals is widespread, the recurring theme of justice in contemporary performance practices remains largely unexplored. However, an increasing number of twenty-first-century artists have begun relying on structures of the court. By creating theatrical tribunals, these artists try to create a space for an alternative jurisdiction. However, a clear typology of this tribunal genre in ...

Focus on the elite tables, following the (luxury) food chain and the networks of the eaters, and study the dramaturgy of commensal micro-politics in order to understand how soft power via feasts and gastronomy, distinction strategies and elite cultures functioned in Europe in the past five centuries (and continue to do so). All this is important in the study of the processes of convergence and divergence as well as trajectories of continuity in ...

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this article, we question the unilateral discourse of benefit of participation in participatory refugee theatre in the context of a growing socio-political climate of polarisation and stigmatisation of refugees in European countries of resettlement. By integrating critical voices from the fields of applied theatre and refugee research, we analyse the micro and macro ...

Legal historian Louis Gernet once said, about the theatrical practice in ancient Athens, that tragedy represents the development of legal and political discourse. Tragedy is law and legal language in-the-making. In modern times, theatre doesn’t have this function anymore, although theatricality – as a specific form of representation – continues to determine legal (and political) processes. And from the opposite point of view, contemporary ...