Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a New Theory -- Dramaturgy in 'P̀ostdramatic' Times / Joseph Danan -- Dramaturgy as Ecology : A Report from The Dramaturgies Project / Peter Eckersall, Paul Monaghan and Melanie Beddie -- Respect and Perspective : Art, Structure and Ownership / Alan Lawrence -- Text -- Telling Stories Across Forms : Interview with Brian Quirt (artistic director, Nightswimming, Toronto) / Yolanda Ferrato -- Towards Performed Dramaturgy / Duška Radosavljević -- Disruption as Revealing the Essence of Truth / Gad Kaynar in conversation with Ruth Kanner -- Devising -- The Feeling of Devising : Emotion and Mind in the Devising Process / Jackie Smart -- 'A Way of Listening' : Interview with John Collins (artistic director, Elevator Repair Service, New York) / Ana Pais -- The Appliance of Science : Devising, Dramaturgy and the Alternative Science Play / Alex Mermikides -- Dance -- Time and a Mirror : Towards a Hybrid Dramaturgy for Intercultural-Indigenous Performance / Rachael Swain -- Going 'Au-delà' : A Journey into the Unknown. Reflections of a Choreographer and a Dramaturg / Lou Cope and Koen Augustijnen with contributions from Annie Pui Ling Lok -- Re-Membering Zero Degrees / Guy Cools -- Spectatorship -- Porous Dramaturgy and the Pedestrian / Cathy Turner -- Dialectical Theatre and Devising : Dramaturgy as a Dialogue between the Author and the Audience / Pedro Ilgenfritz -- Acts of Spectating : The Dramaturgy of the Audience's Experience in Contemporary Theatre / Peter M. Boenisch.

Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance demand new approaches and sensibilities. This is the first book to explore new dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has been transformed.