Q3255
THINKING THROUGH THEATRE
Summer Reading
Please note you are not expected to have completed these readings by the start of term,
but doing so will give you a head start!
1. Peter Brook, ‘The Deadly Theatre’, in The Empty Space (London: Penguin Books,
1968), pp. 11-46.
2. Richard Schechner ‘Performing’, in Performance Studies: An Introduction
(London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 143-187.
3. Michael Kirby, ‘The New Theatre’, The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 10, No. 2
(Winter 1965), pp. 23-43.
4. RosaLee Goldberg, ‘Living Art c. 1933 to the 1970s’, in Performance Art: From
Futurism to the Present, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), pp. 121-151.
5. Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling, ‘Contemporary Devising and Postmodern
Performance’ in Devising Performance: A Critical History (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006), pp. 190-220.
6. Duška Radosavljević, ‘Relational New Works: Authoring Together’, in TheatreMaking: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 150-192.
7. Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson and Katie Normington, ‘The Speaking Body’, in
Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices (London:
Routledge, 2007), pp. 158-172.
Forced Entertainment, Bloody Mess. Photo Hugo Glendinning