Contemporary Storytelling Performance

<p>This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. </p><p>It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake Xanthe Gresham-Knight Mara Menzies Clare Murphy Debs Newbold Rachel Rose Reid Sarah Liisa Wilkinson and Vanessa Woolf while Sally Pomme Clayton’s reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices values aspirations and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners in drama theatre performance creative writing education and media.</p>