1000 Ways to Ask Why

Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking

Emily LeQuesne

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28 November 2024

Performance art; Acting techniques; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Teaching skills & techniques

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?

1000 Ways to Ask Why is a practical how-to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers.

This book introduces The Mosaic Scale process, a five-step system that can be dipped in and out of, as the steps don’t have to be read in a linear way. Akin to a mosaic-building approach, it is designed to help theatre makers refine and develop the bigger picture of a script or a piece of devised performance. Until now, there has been no formal technique for literary or process dramaturgy. This step-by-step process for applying dramaturgical thinking is a series of questions, exercises, and considerations to ask throughout the process of theatre making and rehearsal.

The first how-to literary and process dramaturgy guide. Full of practical exercises, questions, and ways to approach dramaturgical thinking. Accessible exploration of a subject that can sometimes be inaccessibly academic.

This volume will be of great interest to students and dramaturgs.

By: Emily LeQuesne
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032614939
ISBN 10: 1032614935
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgements Glossary Chapter 1: 1000 Ways to Ask Why Chapter 2: The Mosaic Scale Process. The 5 Steps Chapter 3: Code Breakers Chapter 4: Elements Everywhere Chapter 5: Getting the Write Right Chapter 6: The Process of Process Chapter 7: Really Feeling it Now Chapter 8: Wait! What was that? Chapter 9: Spaces and Faces Chapter 10: The Puppet Made Me Do It Chapter 11: Thinking Dramaturgically Chapter 12: Appendices Bibliography Index

Emily LeQuesne is a theatre maker, dramaturg, writer, and researcher. She holds a PhD from Bath Spa University in dramaturgy, puppet theatre and scriptwriting, and a Masters in scriptwriting.