1st Edition

Staging and Re-cycling Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive

Edited By John Keefe, Knut Ove Arntzen Copyright 2020
264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a collection of reprinted and first-published (although previously presented) textual material interspersed with editorial material – reflective... Read more

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements & Permissions

1 John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial Introduction

2 John Keefe, 'Play Beckett: Beckett’s performance dramaturgy as total theatre'. (2003)

3 John Keefe, 'The PG and FPG: Stage Action or Stage Metaphysics?'. (2005)

4 John Keefe: Editorial essay 1 Foundations.

5 Richard Cuming, A Letter on Recycling Sam.

6 Knut Ove Arntzen, 'Dramaturgical Dissolution in the Ambient' in The Marginal Theatre. (2007)

7 Knut Ove Arntzen, 'The Resurrected Theatre Machine: A Postdramatic Paradox’, in Peripeti, tidsskrift for dramaturgiske studier 9: Direction and Production. (2008)

8 Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial essay 1 Theatre Studies, Self-reflection and Creativity: Understanding Theory through Metaphors.

9 John Keefe, 'Berkoff’s ‘Londons’: Staging Psycho-geographies of the Feared and the Ecstatic' in Literary London 7:2. (2009)

10 John Keefe, 'Recycling Sources and Experiencing Physical Theatre in Educating Professionals' in Recycling in Arts, Education and Contemporary Theatre. (2009)

11 John Keefe: Editorial essay 2 Circling Around: Looking(s) and Empathies.

12 Stefanie Sachsenmaier, Retaining and Reframing: Notes on Processes of Remembering in Rosemary Butcher's Choreography-Making.

13 Knut Ove Arntzen, 'On Telling the World and Recycling in the New Theatre' in Recycling in Arts, Education and Contemporary Theatre. (2009)

14 Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial essay 2 Researching, Re-making, Re-cycling.

15 André Eiermann, Recycling, Situationism and Postspectacular Theatre.

16 John Keefe, 'Play(ing) it again: Recycling as Theatres, Histories, Memories' in Art History & Criticism 6: Performing History from 1945 to the Present. (2010)

17 John Keefe: Editorial essay 3 Spectatorial Ghosts.

18 Jacek Scarso & Gian Carlo Rossi, Re-cycle/Up-cycle: A Conversation.

19 Knut Ove Arntzen, 'Producing Marginality and Post-mainstream in Independant Theatre’ in The Marginal Theatre. (2007)

20 Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial essay 3 Nordic Inter-Action: Avant-garde to Visual Performance - the Ritualistic and Mechanical.

21 John Keefe, 'Impossible Theatres and the Possible; some dramaturgical provocations and responses to the opening statement, and implications’. (2015)

22 John Keefe: Editorial essay 4 Further Paths, Returning Threads.

23 Knut Ove Arntzen, Drama in Landscapes. (2014)

24 Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial essay 4 Directing and Choreographing as a Free and Open 'mise-en-scène': from Risky Auteur-ship to Re-cycling Theatre.

25 Annelis Kuhlmann, Dancing with Your Cycle - Theatre and Performance Research as Archivist Practice.

26 John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen: Editorial Conclusion.

27 John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen: Other Works.

Index

Biography

John Keefe is a Senior Lecturer in the Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design at London Metropolitan University.

Knut Ove Arntzen is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

"…this volume is stimulating and makes the readers reflect upon theatre, just like the post-modern spectator!" — Roland Lysell, Norsk Shakespeare tidsskrift, Norway