Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010

Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaborationis an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and contextualizes their reading by revealing how a script can emerge from or provoke a collaborative devising process. The works featured include: Hotel Methuselah, Imitating the Dog/Pete Brooks; Don Juan. Who?, Athletes of the Heart; A Girl Skipping, Graeme Miller; Trans-Acts, Julia Bardsley; US, Bouffes du Nord/Peter Brook; Miss America, Split Britches and 48 Minutes for Palestine, Mojisola Adebayo and Ashtar Theatre. The notion of writing for interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of the selected plays which makes this a very unique collection and the extensive Introduction and notes make this an invaluable resource for any student of theatre and performance.

Anna Furse is an award-winning theatre director and is the director of the MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths and the curator of the Performance Research Forum. Her staged work includes both new writing and classics, and a range of devised works as well as her own commissioned writing and creations, which have received several Arts Council Writers Awards and Bursaries. These have toured Western and Eastern Europe, in festivals as well as in Asia and the USA. Artistic Directorships include Bloodgroup, Paines Plough and her current company Athletes of the Heart.