TaPRA 2025 Directing and Dramaturgy CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: On Joy and Ecstasy
What is the role of joy in theatre and performance? How does the idea of “a good night out” (Aston & Harris, 2012) shape our theatrical landscape? And, how do joy and ecstasy figure beyond the idea of theatre as entertainment? What are the dramaturgical limitations and possibilities of staging joy and/or ecstasy? What is the politics associated with such stagings?
Joy
In the past decade, contemporary liberation...
TaPRA 2024 Directing and Dramaturgy working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Precarity/Precariousness
For two decades, precarity has been used within and outside of the academy as a framework for understanding the increasingly unstable and contingent conditions of human existence under late capitalism.
Anthropologist Clara Han distinguishes that “[on] the one hand, precarity is tightly bound to transformations of labor and the welfare state under conditions of globalization. On the other hand, precarity, and its companion, precariousness, is understood...
