Staging And Re-Cycling

In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a collection of reprinted and first-published (although previously presented) textual material interspersed with editorial material - reflective essays from John and Knut on these pieces from the archives and original essays from invited scholars that explore the theme of repetition and re-cycling. The project has a number of aims: to suggest how the status of 'new' with regard to academic and staged dramaturgical materials may be reframed, to re-examine these through certain lenses and concepts (re-cycling, re-working, the spectator, landscape, post- and other dramaturgies), to explore the possibilities of critique offered by particular modes of juxtaposition, dialogue and dialectic, to offer further provocations to received ideas, and...