ଏହି ଇବୁକ୍ ବିଷୟରେ
This collage text combines and juxtaposes writing by company members and arts commentators, to look in detail at Goat Island’s distinctive collaborative processes and the reception of their work in performance. The book includes a section of practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company’s extensive experience, providing an invaluable classroom resource.
By documenting the creative processes of this extraordinary company, this book will make an important contribution to the critical debates surrounding contemporary performance practices. In so doing, it pays compelling tribute to committed art-making, creativity, collaboration, and the nature of the possible.
ଲେଖକଙ୍କ ବିଷୟରେ
Stephen Bottoms is a theatre researcher and practitioner, and is currently the Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (2004), Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2000), and The Theatre of Sam Shepard (1998).
Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and has performed in all the group’s works. 39 Microlectures, a collection of his writings, was published by Routledge in 2000. He teaches in the Liberal Arts Dept. and the MFA Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was awarded a Lannan Foundation writer’s residency in 2004/5.
