1st Edition

A Poetics of Third Theatre Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Cultural Action

By Jane Turner, Patrick Campbell Copyright 2021
224 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude. This book takes a genealogical account of Third Theatre as a concept and a practice that draws attention to the historical Third Theatre Encounters that have taken place across Europe and... Read more

Part 1  1. Third Theatre: A Genealogy of the Concept  2. Third Theatre: A Genealogy of the Practice  Part 2  3. LUME (Brazil)  4. Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Peru)  5. Triangle Theatre (UK)  6. Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Denmark): Third Theatre Today  Part 3  7. From Interculturalism to Cultural Performance  8. Third Theatre: Embodiment, Craft, (Re)Enchantment  9. Third Theatre Exercises: An Expanded Practice

Biography

Jane Turner is the author of Eugenio Barba (2004, 2nd edn 2018), in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series. She has also published material on Third Theatre, Balinese theatre, performer training, theatre ethnography, the sublime and contemporary theatre performances. As an academic at the Manchester School of Theatre, she teaches on the Drama and Contemporary Performance degree programme.

Patrick Campbell is co-author, with Margaret Pikes, of Owning Our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition (2021), in the Routledge Voice Studies series. He has also published material on Third Theatre, Brazilian theatre, performer training and contemporary theatre performance. As an academic at the Manchester School of Theatre, he teaches on the Drama and Contemporary Performance degree programme.