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Book DescriptionDecentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.
A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques by introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods, traditions, and ways of studying, and teaching diverse narratological practices. This is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting, dramatic structure, storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, or as part of their own professional practice. Routledge 2024 Purchase here Book website here |
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In Part 2: Decenter(Ing) Playwriting: Community Practices, Ritual, and Healing
Writing with Irene: Sustaining the Fornés Playwriting Method Celebrated Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (1930-2018) developed an innovative playwriting method that she taught at universities, festivals and residencies through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as she influenced and trained numerous award-winning playwrights. The Fornés playwriting method includes centering movement, guided visualization, basic drawing, found materials and communal writing as sources for generating rich, new play material. García-Romero and Nuñez chronicle Fornés’s teaching history as well as the documentation of her method. The chapter further explores the perpetuation of Fornesian playwriting through the recent Fornes Playwriting Workshop (2016-2018) held in Chicago, taught by Fornes protégée Migdalia Cruz, and sponsored by the University of Notre Dame. García-Romero and Nuñez argue that new pedagogical frameworks are needed for the sustainability of Fornesian playwriting in the 21st century. |
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Carolyn M. Dunn is a playwright, dramaturg, actor, and director, whose plays have been Equity produced on stages in Los Angeles and New York. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.
Eric Micha Holmes is a dramatist, dramaturg, and educator, whose work has been produced and developed internationally. He teaches at The National Theatre School of Canada and Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, USA. Les Hunter is a playwright and theatre historian. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Baldwin Wallace University, USA. |