This research explores the validity and value of ‘solo devising’ as a means for specifying a category of theatre-making that has been little discussed, compared to group devising, in existing literature on devising and postdramatic theatre. Primary source material was obtained through carrying out extended interviews with five experienced British theatre practitioners who have made work that could be described as solo devised performance: Tim Etchells, Bobby Baker, Mike Pearson, Nigel Charnock and Wendy Houstoun. In analysing these interviews, referred to in detail but not reproduced in full, the enquiry draws on a range of writings, including Oddey, Heddon, Harvie, Alexander and George, on devising and making performance and in particular on Melrose’s concept of practitioner-centred expert knowledge, Lehmann’s notion of the postdramatic and Sennett’s specification of expertise in craftsmanship. Chapter One considers solo practice in relation to the idea of a solo devising economy, the interviewees’ professional work and other experimental solo practices within theatre, performance, dance and art. Chapter Two explores how the interviewees create multiple performance personae, doing and undoing notions of individuality and autobiography through strategies of working ‘about’, ‘from’ and ‘beyond’ the self. Chapter Three explores solo devising processes, involving research, generation of material, composition, performance and ‘orchestration’. Chapter Four scrutinises different kinds of collaboration, including ‘audiencing’, as both enabling and productively confounding activities occurring within solo devising. Chapter five specifies some findings about solo devising: that it both involves expert, crafted, individual working, requiring orchestration of a high number of activities and skills, and, simultaneously, practices of negotiated authorship with other artists and audiences, enabling a potentially political reading of its distinctly ambiguous working. An additional finding is that close attention to what expert practitioners say about their work can yield rich information about a specific practice.

Keywords: GDR literature, historical drama, postdramatic theatre, history, memory, Heiner Müller, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Lehrstück Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyse the representation of the German history and its relation with the reality of the GDR in selected dramas by Heiner Müller (1929-1995): Germania Death in Berlin, Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man, Life of Gundling Frederick of Prussia Lessing's Dream Sleep Scream, The Battle, The Horatian and The Hamletmachine. The main focus of interest is also the approach of the playwright to selected literary and theatrical genres as historical drama, Lehrstück and postdramatic theatre. The philosophical background of the analysis is based mainly on Walter Benjamin's essay On the Concept of History and his description of the painting Angelus Novus by Paul Klee. Furthermore, the thesis examines the methods of dramatization in Heiner Müller's plays.

This study focuses on trends in contemporary Australian playwrighting, discussing recent investigations into the playwrighting process. The study analyses the current state of this country’s playwrighting industry, with a particular focus on programming trends since 1998. It seeks to explore the implications of this current theatrical climate, in particular the types of work most commonly being favoured for production. It argues that Australian plays are under-represented (compared to non-Australian plays) on ‘mainstream’ stages and that audiences might benefit from more challenging modes of writing than the popular three-act realist play models. The thesis argues that ‘New Lyricism’ might fill this position of offering an innovative Australian playwrighting mode. New Lyricism is characterised by a set of common aesthetics, including a non-linear narrative structure, a poetic use of language and magic realism. Several Australian playwrights who have adopted this mode of writing are identified and their works examined. The author’s play Floodlands is presented as a case study and the author’s creative process is examined in light of the published critical discussions about experimental playwriting work.

In my thesis, I analyse the current German political drama. However, the term political drama or theatre is difficult to define in general. In my work, I understand the concepts of political drama / theatre in the narrower sense, follow the engaged, appellative, left-wing (anti-capitalist) oriented the- atre of E. Piscator and Brecht, and at the same, in the broader sense, as socio-critical drama / theatre, i.e. relating to the problems of today's "polis" (city, state) and following mainly the tradition of new German and Austrian folk plays. In contemporary German political drama, the two trends outlined in the introduction can be traced. In their works, the first line (left-wing appellative) is followed mainly by playwrights and directors F. Richter and R. Pollesch, the other line (socio-critical) by D. Loher, O. Bukowski, T. Walser, or M. von Mayenburg.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:52:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daiane.pdf: 1461286 bytes, checksum: f87c39007fbe8883c78cbc359fdfbf32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This present research elaborates a reflection on contemporary actor s dramaturgy and performance, contextualizing the current treatrical production in the assumptions of the postdramatic theatre, - conceptualized by Hans-Thies Lehmann -, and taking as a pratical experiment the play Smoked Love. It examines the key changes from the dramatic theatre to the postdramatic theatre, taking into consideration some changes offered by the postmodernity in the society and arts. In this context, they are still listed some principles of contemporary acting perceived in the investigative process of this study. Smoked Love presents a love triangle irresolute, liquified, and virtualized in their relations, reviewed here principally from studies of the philosopher and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, and others researchers in the field of communication. The process of creating the experiment Smoked Love, which allowed the reflection dialetic between theory and pratice, in this study, is also recorded and analyzed, focusing on the performance of the soloist and her relations with various media presents in the spectacle / Esta presente pesquisa elabora uma reflexão sobre dramaturgia do ator contemporâneo e performance, contextualizando a produção teatral atual nos pressupostos do teatro pós-dramático, - conceituado por Hans-Thies Lehmann -, e tendo como experimento prático o espetáculo Smoked Love. Analisam-se as alterações essenciais do teatro dramático para o teatro pós-dramático, levando em consideração algumas transformações proporcionadas pela pós-modernidade na sociedade e nas artes. Neste contexto, são indicados ainda alguns princípios de atuação contemporânea percebidos no processo investigativo deste estudo. Smoked Love apresenta um triângulo amoroso irressoluto, liquefeito, virtualizado em suas relações, analisado aqui principalmete a partir dos estudos do filósófo e sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman, além de outros estudiosos da área da comunicação. O processo de criação do experimento cênico Smoked Love, que possibilitou a reflexão dialética entre teoria e prática neste estudo, também é registrado e analisado, tendo como foco a atuação da solista e suas relações com as diversas mídias do espetáculo

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:00:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FelipeHMO_DISSERT.pdf: 3354962 bytes, checksum: a758acb9f2bb7a31cde2e3bc40a8bacb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The dissertation intends to develop an investigation on the artistic existence in human beings with different bodies in society at different historical moments. In this regard and based on this scenario, the study develops a description of the stigmas production and how they are established, spread and interfere with the sociability among human beings regarded as normal and those with different bodies. Regarding the scenic arts, the text describes about the participation of artists with different bodies in the scene, specifically the freak show and postdramatic theater. The text also investigates aspects of the biography and the work of mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which underpin methodological proceedings and produce contribution to the creative process of performance Kahlo em mim Eu e(m) Kahlo , which is to investigate the practice of the scene in this dissertation / A disserta??o tem como objetivo realizar uma averigua??o sobre o fazer art?stico na exist?ncia dos seres humanos com corpos diferenciados na sociedade, em diferentes momentos hist?ricos. Neste sentido e com base neste panorama, o estudo elabora uma descri??o sobre a produ??o de estigmas e a forma como eles se instauram, se propagam e interferem na sociabilidade entre os seres humanos considerados normais e os com corpos diferenciados. No que tange as artes c?nicas, o texto faz uma descri??o acerca da participa??o dos artistas com corpos diferenciados na cena, especificamente do freak show e no teatro p?s-dram?tico. O texto tamb?m investiga aspectos da biografia e da obra da artista pl?stica mexicana Frida Kahlo, os quais fundamentam os procedimentos metodol?gicos e produzem aportes para o processo criativo da performance Kahlo em mim Eu e(m) Kahlo , que consiste na investiga??o da pr?tica da cena na disserta??o

Étudiée à travers un corpus de cinq auteurs scéniques – Romeo Castellucci, Pippo Delbono,Simon McBurney, Christoph Marthaler et François Tanguy, la représentation rhapsodique met en lumière une pratique théâtrale qui consiste à construire le spectacle à partir des composants du plateau : scénographie, jeu des acteurs et textes produits par les acteurs ou apportés comme« matériaux » de jeu. Le metteur en scène, devenu « auteur scénique », compose ainsi, en étroite relation avec les présences en scène une écriture scénique à l’intérieur de laquelle le texte,reconfiguré dans la partition scénique, déstabilise les attendus dramatiques. La caractéristique de cette écriture est de tresser les différents constituants entre eux et de se développer en séquences dramatiques, par un méticuleux travail de montage.Le paysage théâtral qui se dégage de cette étude place la réception au coeur du dispositif scénique. / Through the study of five scenic authors – Romeo Castellucci, Pippo Delbono, SimonMcBurney, Christoph Marthaler and François Tanguy, rhapsodic performance highlights a theatrical practice which consists of constructing the show with the stage components : scenography, the acting, and the text produced or introduced by the actor as the acting« material ». The director, who becomes the « scenic author », thus composes, in strict relation with the stage presence a scenic account in which the text, reworked in its scenic partitions,destabilizes the dramatic expectations. The characteristic of this technique is to harmonize the different constituents amongst themselves and to unfold into dramatic sequences, through ameticulous mounting process.The theatrical landscape revealed through this study places reception in the heart of the scenic device.

This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. Through the lens of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory on postdramatic theatre, the thesis dissects aspects of the performances moving beyond the dramatic action to gain further insight into the portrayal of mother and daughter on stage. The thesis aims to investigate the aspects contributing to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyse the conveyed meaning of the relationship between them. Combined with a feminist approach, the role of mother and daughter on stage is placed in a larger context, analysing motherhood as an institution and concept, both on and off stage. By understanding the intimate and complex mother-daughter relationship as a product of patriarchal structure, it becomes necessary and relevant to investigate this relationship further. Since the performances portray private relationships in a public space, the analysis is also concerned with the interrelation between the stage and the outside world. The analysed performances are Und dann kam Mirna at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Kung Mor at Teater Galeasen in Stockholm and Mommy Issues at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The material for the thesis mainly consists of my experiences of the performances in the role of spectator and the theatre texts. By using Lehmann’s theory as a starting point, the analyses are centred around moving beyond the narrative to investigate other aspects on stage, such as objects, physicality, levels of reality, intertextuality, intermediality and the use of text on stage. The thesis dissects how these aspects contribute to the creation of mother and daughter on stage, as well as analyses the portrayed generational differences and their impact on the mother-daughter relationship in the performances. The analyses place the portrayed mothers and daughters into a larger context, by including concepts such as performativity and the male gaze. The thesis shows how the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage can be created by reaching beyond a narrative or a desired understandability. Together, the three performance analyses contribute with concluding insights into the internal logic and structures of the performances.

Ce mémoire se penche sur l’évolution des stratégies d’autoreprésentation et d’autofictionnalisation dans cinq solos de Marie Brassard entre 2000 et 2011 – Jimmy, créature de rêve, La noirceur, Peepshow, L’invisible et Moi qui me parle à moi-même dans le futur. L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser comment les masques vocaux contribuent au dévoilement de soi et produisent de ce fait un sentiment d’intimité malgré l’alternance des effets d’identification et de distanciation qu’ils suscitent. Le premier chapitre montre que, par l’ouverture du moi sur le monde au fil des créations, les protagonistes parviennent bientôt à dire « je » sans avoir la consistance d’un personnage, alors que le moi de l’archiénonciatrice se dilate grâce à la perméabilité et aux permutations continuelles des thèmes, des motifs et des personnages. Le second chapitre analyse le décloisonnement spatial qui affecte la scène et la salle comme la performeuse et ses collaborateurs dans l’établissement d’un véritable dialogisme. À partir de l’étude du corps en scène, le dernier chapitre examine les effets du décloisonnement textuel et spatial, et montre que la mise en évidence du triple rôle endossé par Brassard – auteure, actrice et agenceure scénique – oblige à reconsidérer la nature du corps qui s’offre au regard durant la représentation, en invitant le spectateur à s’investir dans le jeu scénique au-delà des évidences. / This dissertation focuses on the development of the strategies of self-representation and autofictionnalisation in five one-woman shows by Marie Brassard between 2000 and 2011 – Jimmy, creature de reve, The Darkness, Peepshow, The Invisible and Me Talking to Myself in the Future. The objective of this study is to analyze the way vocal masks contribute to self-disclosure and thereby produce a feeling of intimacy despite the alternating effects of identification and alienation they engender. The first chapter shows that by opening the “me” to the world through creations, the protagonists soon come to say “I” without having the consistency of a character, while the “me” of the archienonciator expands through continual permeability and permutations of themes, motives and characters. The second chapter analyzes the deregulation affecting the space stage and the audience as well as the performer and her collaborators in the establishment of a genuine dialogism. With the study of the body on stage as its starting point, the last chapter examines the effects of spatial and textual decompartmentalization and shows that the display of the triple role endorsed by Brassard – author, actress and scenic organizer – forces us to reconsider the nature of the body that offers itself to the audience during the performance, inviting the audience member to invest himself in stagecraft beyond what is obvious.

A presente tese investiga a pertinência e a relevância cultural de um teatro voltado especialmente para bebês. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo de inspiração etnográfica, que consistiu principalmente da participação da pesquisadora como público em espetáculos teatrais voltados especialmente para essa faixa etária, na cidade de São Paulo. Desta forma, o teatro para bebês consistiria uma unidade mínima bastante especial e oportuna para a observação de fenômenos culturais, nos quais há construções conjuntas de significados, envolvendo adultos e crianças. Foram assistidos doze espetáculos de teatro para bebês, dos quais cinco foram analisados mais detalhadamente. Observou-se a dinâmica de interações que se estabelecia a partir das proposições cênicas das/dos artistas e da montagem, bem como da recepção e da participação da plateia, composta de adultos e crianças, especialmente as bem pequenas, até dois anos. Também foram realizadas entrevistas com os artistas criadores dos espetáculos. Para as análises, foram utilizados principalmente quatro referenciais teóricos: a tese de Vigotski (1995) de que as funções superiores são a cultura internalizada, atualizada no estudo proposto por Pino (2005) no que diz respeito à ideia de humano; o referencial teórico da Rede de Significações (RedSig); a ideia de dieta cultural proposta por Del Río e Álvarez (2007); e a Estética da Recepção, a partir das ideias de Robert Jauss (1979) e Wolfgang Iser (1996). Constatou-se que há semelhanças entre o teatro para bebês e a escola de educação infantil quanto à dinâmica do triângulo relacional que se estabelece entre mães/pais, professores, e bebês, na escola; e mães/pais, professores e bebês, no teatro. Como na escola, mas de forma \"concentrada\", o teatro para bebês oferece oportunidade de construção de significados conjuntos, da descoberta do outro, de disputa de atenção e de crescimento envolvendo adultos e crianças. Concluiu-se que é pertinente que se crie e apresente espetáculos teatrais especialmente para a primeira infância (bebês) e que a oferta desse tipo de produção, já considerável em São Paulo, tende a aumentar e se diversificar nos próximos anos. / This thesis investigates the pertinence and cultural relevance of theatrical production targeting babies. To that end, a study of ethnographical inspiration was conducted, consisting primarily of participation by the researcher as a member of the audience in dramatic productions aimed at this age range, in the city of São Paulo. In this way, theatre for babies would constitute a minimal unity, quite special and inviting for the observation of cultural phenomena, in which children and adults take part as a group in the construction of meanings. Twelve productions were watched, five of which were chosen for a more in-depth analysis. We observed the interaction dynamics established by the dramatic propositions of the artists and the production itself, as well as reception and participation by the audience, composed by adults and children, especially the very young, up to two years of age. Interviews were also conducted with the creators of the productions. For the analyses, four theoretical cornerstones were mainly used: the thesis by Vigotski (1995) that the superior functions are internalized culture, updated in the study proposed by Pino (2005) with respect to the idea of human; the theoretical reference of the network of meanings; the idea of cultural diet proposed by Del Río and Álvarez (2007); and the Aesthetics of Reception, from the ideas of Robert Jauss (1979) and Wolfgang Iser (1996). We found that there are resemblances between the theatre for babies and the institution of Early Childhood Education regarding the relational triangle established by parents, teachers and babies, at school; and parents, teachers and babies, at the theatre. As in school, albeit in a concentrated manner, theatre for babies offers opportunities for the constructing of joint meanings, the discovery of the Other, the dispute for attention and growth involving adults and children. We concluded that creating and presenting dramatic productions made specially for children in their early infancies (babies) is a pertinent practice, and that the supply of this type of production, already sizeable in São Paulo, is predicted to increase and to diversify in the next few years.