Text in Contemporary Theatre

The Baltics within the World Experience

Edited By: Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone

£44.99

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. In this volume, nineteen theatre and drama researchers from…

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. In this volume, nineteen theatre and drama researchers from the Baltic countries, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Russia and China discuss the results of their research into these issues in academic articles and essays. The book mainly focuses on the experience of the Baltics in the creation of theatrical texts, but it also provides a wider insight into the changing processes of world drama and theatre. Three sections of the volume provide numerous examples of the functionality of traditional texts in today’s theatre, as well as introducing the reader to new names in contemporary drama and the different models of practice in theatre companies.

This book, with its rich collection of material and detailed analysis of different methods and experiences of contemporary theatre, is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.

Guna Zeltiņa, Dr Art, has been Head of the Department of Theatre, Music and Cinema at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia, since 1992. Since 1973, she has published seven individual monographs, many chapters in collective monographs and more than 300 articles locally and abroad. Among her publications are: Theatre in Latvia (2012); Latviešu teātris no pirmsākumiem līdz mūsdienām (2010); and “Baltic Theatre 1995–2005: Processes and Trends”, in the Journal of Baltic Studies (40 (4), 2009).