Graham, Fiona. 2025. Becoming Dramaturg: Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Book] (Forthcoming)

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Becoming 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 the dramaturg can facilitate ethical collaborations, and how dramaturgical thinking can inspire new ways of learning and knowing. Fiona Graham draws upon her international experience as a dramaturg and her pedagogical insights from leading the MA Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, London University to examines the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of dramaturgical development. Through practitioner interviews, teaching examples and performance case studies, Graham shares multiple possibilities utilising the questioning process, a nomadic subjectivity, critical kindness, radical empathy, artist reflexivity, decentred dramaturgies, archipelagic connections, serendipity and liquid thinking. There are strategies for Feminist, Decolonised, Indigenous, Queer, Critical Disability, Dramatic, Postdramatic and Eco dramaturgies. These processes destabilise habitus, recognise systems of privilege, investigate where the personal meets the political, weave practice with theory, analyse the revelation of material over time, 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.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Theatre and Performance (TAP) > The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing (PCPCW) Theatre and Performance (TAP)
Date:	July 2025
Item ID:	39278
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2025 11:28
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2025 11:28
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39278

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