Graham, Fiona. 2027. Becoming a Dramaturg: Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Book] (Forthcoming)

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Becoming a Dramaturg: Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice examines how performance development can be enhanced by the work of a dramaturg, how practitioners can prepare for the role working across diverse cultures and different kinds of performance event, how dramaturgical thinking can inspire new ways of learning and knowing, and how a dramaturg can facilitate innovative collaborations. Drawing on her professional international experience as a dramaturg and her pedagogical insights from leading the MA Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, Fiona Graham examines the why, what and how of dramaturgical intervention identifying key strategies for performance development. Through practitioner interviews, teaching examples and performance case studies, Graham shares multiple possibilities utilising the questioning process, critical kindness, a nomadic subjectivity, artist reflexivity, decentred dramaturgies, archipelagic connections and liquid thinking. These processes weave practice with theory, destabilise habitual patterns, recognise systems of privilege, investigate where the personal meets the political and enable the artist(s) to identify and extend their performance vision. A key concept is that the work of a dramaturg is always in a state of becoming and never settled or defined by a single performance development process. Graham’s manifesto for dramaturgs aims to advance the role by presenting ethical and expanded provocations for constructive, transparent, reflexive, and radically inclusive ways of working. Informed by forty years of performance making, this book is essential reading for dramaturgs, practitioners and students of all creative disciplines that want to develop their practice with nuance and integrity.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Theatre and Performance (TAP)
Date:	2027
Item ID:	38464
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2025 10:40
Last Modified:	26 Feb 2025 10:40
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38464

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