You are cordially invited to a panel discussion on

The Dramaturg – Manager or Creator?

Can the dramaturg play a creative role in today’s theatre or is s/he just a “script administrator”? This discussion will address the discrepancy between the ideals of dramaturgy such as in-depth research for productions, lengthy workshops with playwrights and detailed script development, as well as establishing long-term goals for repertoire policies, and the actual “Monday morning work” of reading large amounts of scripts, working around tight rehearsal schedules and often having only limited input on long term programme development. What are the challenges of the dramaturg role? What is left of the ideals? Fifteen years on since the concept of dramaturgy really took off in Britain, what is the reality of the dramaturg?

Time and venue :
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 7pm,
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
FREE Admission

Panellists:
Frances Poet (Literary Manager, National Theatre of Scotland)
Katherine Mendelsohn (Literary Manager, Traverse Theatre)
Nicola McCartney (Playwright and Dramaturg)
Julie Ellen (Creative Director, Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland)
Anselm Heinrich (Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow)

Special guest:
Maja Zade (Dramaturg, Schaubühne Berlin): Maja worked as Senior Reader at the Royal Court before joining the prestigious Schaubühne, one of Europe’s leading theatres. She has translated plays by Lars von Trier, Caryl Churchill, Marius von Mayenburg, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Lars Norén, and Falk Richter.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Goethe Institut Glasgow.