{"product_id":"making-contemporary-theatre-international-rehearsal-processes-9780719074929","title":"Making contemporary theatre: International rehearsal processes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jen Harvie | Andy Lavender\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers describe, contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors, including Japan's Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Québécois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off 'asides', giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production, such as Complicite's 2003-04 The Elephant Vanishes, allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors, plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking contemporary theatre is a rich resource for the theatre-making student and the theatre-goer alike, full of diverse examples of how the most exciting theatre is actually made.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891443056791,"sku":"9780719074929","price":2822.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780719074929.webp?v=1781183720","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/making-contemporary-theatre-international-rehearsal-processes-9780719074929","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}