The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

Romanska, Magda

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“…44 In a very di erent line of thought, current emphases on dramaturgy as cultural intervention (if conceivably dating from Lessing and Brecht) range from Bruce Barton's call for an "inter/actual" dramaturgy -"to recognize and work with what a performance is doing, rather than what it is trying to be" 45 -to Magda Romanska's tasking dramaturgs with its "contextualization" in audience outreach, from programme notes and lobby displays to previews in social media and theatre apps. 46 In the concluding section, I will discuss some further variables of context, which, if only implicitly, attend to the one menace of spatial "mapping" that Ingold addresses over and over: "Like a theatrical stage from which all the actors have mysteriously disappeared, the world -as it is represented in the map -appears deserted, devoid of life." 47 THREADING BEYOND: THE SURPLUS OF CONTEXT In the contextual terms I have been arguing for (and it might be advisable to read this with Figure 1 at hand again), we could now suggest that instead of following a pre-given dramaturgy, the work of actions on stage or o constitutes one as it unfolds.…”

Section: From Mapping To Eventness: Unweaving the Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning in the Weaving: Mapping and Texture as Figures of Spatiality and Eventness

Paavolainen

2015

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Meaning in the Weaving: Mapping and Texture asFigures of Spatiality and Eventness Advocating a dramaturgical ontology of events rather than objects -or ecologies rather than cartographies -the article defends the metaphors of texture and weaving as intuitive, non-anthropocentric alternatives to current idioms of becoming and emergence. Already popularized as the very de nition of "dramaturgy" by Eugenio Barba, these are speci cally traced through Tim Ingold's recent anthropology of weaving and S. C. Pepper's philosophical pragmatism: where Ingold's ecology of lines admits to "no insides or outsides […] trailing loose ends in every direction", Pepper's "contextualistic world" of events admits "no top nor bottom" to its strands and textures. Intended only as a theoretical introduction to the implications of a certain family of metaphors (complete with a graphic representation thereof ), this article distinguishes the eventness of texture from certain notions of spatial "mapping" and discusses the "ecological" range of the metaphor through the concepts of textural fusion and spread.

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Section: From Mapping To Eventness: Unweaving the Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%