Insight into the collaborative, multi-layered, and sometimes messy business of theater.
The artist-led theater company Lightwork specializes in collaborative multimedia performance. The company experimented with several performance forms that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century including devised and improvisation-led approaches. This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by Lightwork and one play-text from Lightwork’s precursor company Academy Productions. The twelve-year span covered by the work reflects a period in British performance practice when the interrelation of page and stage, process and production, and text and “non-text” were being radically rethought.
The artist-led theater company Lightwork specializes in collaborative multimedia performance. The company experimented with several performance forms that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century including devised and improvisation-led approaches. This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by Lightwork and one play-text from Lightwork’s precursor company Academy Productions. The twelve-year span covered by the work reflects a period in British performance practice when the interrelation of page and stage, process and production, and text and “non-text” were being radically rethought.
330 pages | 1 halftone | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2021
Art: Art--General Studies
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works
Table of Contents
Starting points
On Lightwork and twenty-first-century theatre Alex Mermikides
On texts and collaborations Andy Lavender
Blavatsky
On writing live Clare Bayley
TEXT: Blavatsky (1999)
London/My Lover
On technical operation Alex Mermikides
TEXT: London/My Lover schematic (2002)
On documentation Sarah Gorman
Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day
On writing and not writing plays Dan Rebellato
TEXT: Here’s What I Did With My Body One Day (2004/2006)
On experimenting David Annen
You Kill Me
TEXT: Once I was Dead (2006)
TEXT: Back at You (2007)
Sarajevo Story
On sound Gregg Fisher
TEXT: Sarajevo Story (2008)
On scenography Jo Parker
MyLife
On movement direction Ayse Tashkiran
TEXT: MyLife running orders (2008)
The Tempest
On intermediality Aneta Mancewicz
TEXT: The Tempest (edited version 2009)
The Good Actor
On acting Bella Merlin
TEXT: The Good Actor various (2010/2011)
The Shift
On process Clare Bayley
TEXT: The Shift (1997)
Contributors
Bibliography