1st Edition

What's the Story Essays about art, theater and storytelling

By Anne Bogart Copyright 2014
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a ‘product of postmodernism’, can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theatre practitioners can think of themselves not as... Read more

Spaciousness

Narrative

Heat

Limits

Error

Politics

Arrest

Empathy

Opposition

Collaboration

Sustenance

Biography

Anne Bogart is currently one of the Artistic Directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Concentration and is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.