Lightwork

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Texts on and from Collaborative Multimedia Theatre

Series: Playtext

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Lightwork offers insight into the collaborative, multi-layered, and sometimes messy world of theatre. The artist-led company specialises in multimedia performance, experimenting with devised and improvisation-led forms emerging at the start of the twenty-first century. This volume compiles performance texts from nine Lightwork productions and one from their precursor, Academy Productions, spanning twelve years of innovative British theatre.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary British theatre, performance studies, and collaborative artistic processes.

Collection of performance texts from the experimental theatre company Lightwork, along with short essays by key participants. Geared around collaborative creation, it covers an array of approaches including devised, multimedia and site-specific work, providing a rich resource for those making or studying contemporary performance. 20 illus.

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Insight into the collaborative, multi-layered, and sometimes messy business of theatre.

The artist-led theatre company Lightwork specialises in collaborative multimedia performance. The company experimented with several performance forms that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century, including devised and improvisation-led approaches.

This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by Lightwork and one play-text from Lightwork's precursor company, Academy Productions. The twelve-year span covered by the work reflects a period in British performance practice when the interrelation of page and stage, process and production, and text and “non-text” were being radically rethought.

Series: Playtext

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789385014

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 11 Figures

Contributors:

Series edited by Patrick Duggan
Edited by Alex Mermikides
Edited by Andy Lavender

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 730g

Pages: 330

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Playtext

About the Author

Alex Mermikides is doctoral programme leader at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Recent publications include Performance and the Medical Body 2016, co-edited with Gianna Bouchard, and Performance, Medicine and the Human 2020 (both by Methuen Drama Bloomsbury); she is artistic director of Chimera.

Andy Lavender is vice principal and director of production arts, and professor of theatre and performance, at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He is the author of Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement (Routledge 2016), series editor of 4x45 (Digital Theatre+ and Routledge) and artistic director of Lightwork.

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