Becoming Dramaturg

Becoming Dramaturg: Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice examines how performance development can be enhanced by the work of a dramaturg, how practitioners can prepare for the role working across diverse cultures and different kinds of performance events, how the dramaturg can facilitate ethical collaborations, and how dramaturgical thinking can inspire new ways of learning and knowing.
Fiona Graham draws upon her international experience as a dramaturg, her own pedagogical insights, practitioner interviews, teaching examples and performance case studies to examine the 'what', 'why' and 'how' of dramaturgical development.
A key concept is that the work of a dramaturg is always in a state of becoming and never settled or defined by a single performance development process. Graham's manifesto for dramaturgs aims to advance the role by presenting ethical and expanded provocations for constructive, transparent, reflexive and radically inclusive ways of working.

Fiona Graham is Programme Director for the MA in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has worked as a freelance dramaturg for the last 20 years and has published a book, Performing Dramaturgy.

List of Figures
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Beyond definition Brian Quirt
Introduction Creating a map
Chapter 1 The Role of the Dramaturg
Chapter 2 The Ethics of the Dramaturg
Chapter 3 The Questioning Process
Chapter 4 Dramaturgies of Time
Chapter 5 Expanded Possibilities
Conclusion A Dramaturg's Manifesto
Bibliography
Index