Re-Framing the Theatrical

This book takes us on a spectator’s journey engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization.

Alison Oddey takes us on a spectator’s journey engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization. She questions the role of the spectator and director, including interviews with Deborah Warner; the nature of art works and performance with artists Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey and Graeme Miller. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature; searching for space and contemplation in a hectic Twenty-First century landscape.

ALISON ODDEY is Visiting Professor of Contemporary Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Northampton, UK. As a broadcaster, she wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Stand-ups and Strumpets’. Her publications include The Potentials of Spaces, Performing Women and Devising Theatre.

List of Figuress * Acknowledgements * Foreword–Colin Wiggins * Re-Framing * Director-Creator-Collaborator: Devising and Technology * ‘It’s about Cross-Over’: Cross-Art Performance * Re-thinking the Theatrical Frame: The Opera Director, Video Artist and Visual Artists * Landscapes for Performance : the Geographies of Deborah Warner * Angels, Soul and Rebirth * Narratives of the City, Interpretations of Director, Reflections of Spectator * The Art of Sound: Auditory Directions * Performing Silence * Notes * Bibliography * Index