Diversity Inclusion and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy

<p><i>Diversity Inclusion and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy </i>offers fresh perspectives on how dramaturgs can support a production beyond rigid disciplinary expectations about what information and ideas are useful and how they should be shared.</p><p>The sixteen contributors to this volume offer personal windows into dramaturgy practice encouraging theater practitioners students and general theater-lovers to imagine themselves as dramaturgs newly inspired by the encounters and enquiries that are the juice of contemporary theater. Each case study is written by a dramaturg whose body of work explores important issues of race cultural equity and culturally-specific practices within a wide range of conventions venues and communities. The contributors demonstrate the unique capacity of their craft to straddle the ravine between stage and stalls intention and impact.</p><p>By unpacking in the most up-to-date ways the central question of “Why this play at this time for this audience?” this collection provides valuable insights and dramaturgy tools for scholars and students of Dramaturgy Directing and Theater Studies.</p>