1st Edition
The Contemporary Ensemble Interviews with Theatre-Makers
PART I: Redefinitions of Ensemble
1.1. MICHAEL BOYD (Royal Shakespeare Company): A ‘Contingent Community’ in a Free Market Economy
1.2. GABOR TOMPA (Hungarian Theatre of Cluj): Between the East and the West Today
1.3. HERMANN WÜNDRICH (The Berliner Ensemble): How the Berliner Ensemble Changes With Time
1.4. YURI BUTUSOV (guest director Satirikon Theatre): Directing as an Art of Composition
1.5. MAX STAFFORD-CLARK (Out of Joint): A Tried and Tested Ensemble Methodology
1.6. ELIZABETH LECOMPTE (The Wooster Group): ‘A Group of People Around a Place’
1.7. LYN GARDNER (The Guardian Newspaper): On Regional Theatre-Making
PART 2: Working Processes
2.1. ANTON ADASSINSKY and ELENA YAROVAYA (Derevo): Beyond Words
2.2. EMMA RICE (Kneehigh Theatre): From a Community to the West End
2.3. JOANNA HOLDEN (freelance actor, Northern Stage, Kneehigh, Cirque du Soleil): On Being an Ensemble Actor in the UK
2.4. IAN MORGAN (Song of the Goat): An Actor’s Journey Between Wales and Wroclaw
2.5. DAN ROTHENBERG (Pig Iron): ‘Comic Figures Repurposed’
2.6. ADRIANO SHAPLIN (The Riot Group): Ensemble as a Musical ‘Intersubjective Unit’
2.7. HANNA SLÄTTNE (Tinderbox Theatre): Working together in Northern Ireland
2.8. ALEXANDER KELLY (Third Angel) and CHRIS THORPE (Unlimited Theatre): On Writing and Performance in an Ensemble
PART III: Ensemble and the Audience
3.1. MIKE ALFREDS (ex-Shared Experience, Method and Madness): Sharing the Experience of Imagination
3.2. GREG ALLEN (The Neo-Futurists): An Interactive Ensemble
3.3. PHELIM MCDERMOTT (Improbable): ‘Safe Emergencies’
3.4. PETER ECKERSALL (Not Yet It’s Difficult): The Dramaturgy of Long-Term Cross-Cultural Collaboration
3.5. KATARINA PEJOVIĆ and BORIS BAKAL (Shadow Casters): Ensemble as a Tool of Civic Engagement
3.6. DAVID BAUWENS, ALEXANDER DEVRIENDT, JOERI SMET (Ontroerend Goed): On Courting the Audience
3.7. RICHARD JORDAN (Richard Jordan Productions): Towards a Global Ensemble
Biography
Duška Radosavljevic
