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Becoming Dramaturg

Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice

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Becoming Dramaturg

Possibilities for an Ethical and Expanded Practice

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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.

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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

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Explore Methuen Drama
Published 25 Jun 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9781350417199
Imprint Methuen Drama
Illustrations 10 b&w
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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