Performing Ensemble: Practices, Theatre, and Social Change

By Carmen Pellegrinelli

The book presents a novel analysis supporting the idea that a theatre ensemble is not just an entity but an emergent process. Through the lens of a theatre company's performative, creative, organizational, and activist practices, the ensemble is conceptualized in its collective becoming. This socio-historical and new materialist analysis of a European theatre company (ATIR) over thirty years highlights how a group's performative capacity to make-ensemble stimulates its organizational and social processes. With a commitment to participation, listening, and horizontality, the ensemble is shown to challenge the structures of capitalism, and fosters a vision of hope for societies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004720553
• ISBN13: 9789004720558
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"