What do we imagine might happen in a theatre, that space devoted to nightly appearance and disappearance? What other worlds might we fabricate there and how might its acts redress our own world? What does the theatre as a tradition and medium allow us to imagine?<\/p>\n
The book version of Imagined Theatres: writing for a theoretical stage<\/em>\u00a0was published in the spring of 2017 by Routledge press; it brought together short conceptual performances written by close to one hundred artists and theorists of the stage. With few exceptions, these contributors hailed from the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Each writer offered a text one page in length, describing an event that may or may not be performed in some future theatre to come. Another single page text faced each theatre, written by the same author or another: a gloss <\/em>outlining a critical context, a history, or a personal reflection, which models one of many possible responses to the hypothetical event. This volume was shaped and oriented by the book format, the limits of a single page dictating the bounds of its many stages.<\/p>\n But the theatre keeps imagining itself anew. Every time we return to the rehearsal room or settle into our seats, we imagine a difference, however small, however subtle. This need not be a matter of disruption; it may be a gesture of conservation or repair.\u00a0The open-access e-journal\u00a0Imaginedtheatres.com<\/em>\u00a0extends the prospect of its precursor in new directions. It looks out toward communities and geographies that the book could not address; and it invites readers to contribute to its universe.<\/p>\n To inaugurate the release of the journal, and to foster connections between the printed page and the digital network, a selection of pieces from the book have been republished here: 12 out of 121 pieces. I am grateful to the contributors for allowing their work to be disseminated in this manner, and to Routledge press for encouraging their reproduction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daniel Sack<\/strong><\/p>\n Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do we imagine might happen in a theatre, that space devoted to nightly appearance and disappearance? What other worlds might we fabricate there and how might its acts redress our own world? What does the theatre as a tradition and medium allow us to imagine? The book version of Imagined Theatres: writing for a […]","protected":false},"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/issues\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/issues"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}