The dramaturgs’network Newsletter

We have sent out our newsletter since 2002. It contains news and articles and also function as a chronicle over the network’s activities and growth.
We aim to produce it quarterly but with our other work committments that can sometimes be difficult.
We keep the back issues here in pdf format but you can also browse some of the articles individually under the link articles

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The Editors

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Autumn-Winter 2005

In this double issue of the dramaturgs’ network newsletter we have some articles that summarise a dramaturg’s experience. Frauke Franz, keynote speaker on the Dramaturgy Day at the Birmingham Rep: gives a short summary of the conference. Martine Dennewald, dramaturg: reflects on festival dramaturgy, based on her experiences in London and Budapest, with a particular emphasis on the discursive element of dramaturgical work. John Keefe, lecturer-dramaturg: gives a dramaturgical view of the nature of collaboration and complicity in total theatre. Katalin Trencsényi, dramaturg: gives a personal account of her five years’ experience as a freelance dramaturg.

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dramaturgs_newsletter_winter/autumn_2005.pdf

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Spring 2005

Welcome to the spring issue of the Dramaturgs’ Network’s Newsletter!
A theme running across the three articles of this issue is what we may call ‘practical dramaturgy’: how the drama text may be given new life or enhanced by the non-spoken aspects of the theatre event being given equal weight to the dialogue; how the work on new plays in the rehearsal room benefits from the work of a dramaturg.
Phil Smith, playwright, is taking a very personal approach to the task of rescuing the theatricality of drama works, arguing for the centrality of the theatrical in the dramaturg’s work.

pdf-version for download
dramaturgs_newsletter_spring_2005.pdf

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Winter 2005

A full account of the “New writing: How do we develop new plays?“ discussion organised by the Dramaturgs’ Network and the Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas at the Albery Theatre last autumn forms a major part of this newsletter. We also have some other responses to the presentations and material of the morning: provoking thoughts from a director, a dramaturg and a playwright.

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dramaturgs_newsletter_winter_2005.pdf

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Autumn 2004

In this autumns issue of the dramaturgs’ network newletter we are leaving London to focus on dramaturgical activities outside England. There is a personal account from the newly appointed literary manager of the Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, who is the only full-time literary manager in Northern Ireland. Our second trip is to Scotland, namely to Edinburgh to see what kind of training the Queen Margaret University College offers to those who decide to specialise in dramaturgy. There is also information of our upcoming symposium with our sister organisation Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

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dramaturgs_newsletter_autumn_2004.pdf

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Summer 2004

Welcome to the Summer Issue of the Dramaturgs’Network’s Newsletter!
In this issue we are reporting from two network events: the first event was held at the BAC in the autumn, and it dealt with the dramaturg’s work in the devising process, and our second was held in the spring and gave an insight into the work of a dramaturg in Germany. We have two personal accounts from these events as well as other news.

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dramaturgs_newsletter_summer_2004.pdf

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Spring 2004

The Dramaturgs’ Network’s first newsletter in 2004 has an article about the National Student Drama Festival, a report from the Dramaturgy Festival at Newcastle Playhouse and an interview with Norhtern Stage’s resident dramaturg Duska Radosavljevic.

pdf-version for download
dramaturgs_newsletter_spring_2004.pdf

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Spring 2003

The Dramaturgs’ Network’s third newsletter contains an update on activities, a reflection on the debates at the In-yer-face conference in Bristol last year, notes from the session of ?alternative dramaturgies? at the Writers Expo 2002 and a report on Theatre and Beyond?s second TABSLABS project.

pdf-version for download
dramaturgs_newsletter_spring_2003.pdf

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Summer 2002

In this issue the Network invites you to its first workshop on the role of the dramaturg in devised theatre, reports back on its first activities and presents a thought-provoking article by John Keefe

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dramaturgs_newsletter_summer_2002.pdf

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Spring 2002

The Dramaturgs’ Network’s first newsletter reports from the inaugural symposium at the Albery Theatre and the talk prepared by Ben Payne

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dramaturgs_newsletter_spring_2002.pdf

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