The ideas behind The Contemporary American Monologue originate in my discovering a CD
of the late Spalding Gray performing It'sa Slippery Slope (1997) during my first visit to New …

The past two decades have seen a remarkable resurgence of verbatim theatre, a type of
drama based on actual words spoken by 'real'people, without any prescribed form and …

This chapter introduces Performing Climates, reveals the messy relations involved in
thinking about theatre and climate change and outlines the process of writing the book. We …

This thesis proposes the lens of pragmatic dramaturgy as a way of understanding the
complex interactions between process and performance that define theatre practice, and …

This chapter explores worms, compost cycles and multi-species performance in works by
Gregory Lorenzutti and Out-of-Sync. We suggest that performance-making processes that …