Making contemporary theatre

<p>Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. <br><br>The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters eleven different writer-observers describe contextualise and analyse the theatre-making practices of eleven different companies and directors including Japan's Gekidan Kaitaisha and the Québécois director Robert Lepage. Each chapter is enriched with extensive illustrations as well as boxed-off 'asides' giving the reader different perspectives on the work. Chapters usually focus on a single production such as Complicite's 2003-04 The Elephant Vanishes allowing detailed investigations of complex practices to emerge. The book concludes with a brief manifesto for making contemporary theatre by the editors plus a bibliography suggesting further reading. <br><br>Making contemporary theatre is a rich resource for the theatre-making student and the theatre-goer alike full of diverse examples of how the most exciting theatre is actually made.</p>