THE PRACTICE OF DRAMATURGY

There is a growing interest in the notion and practice of dramaturgy, which is often discussed either as the work of the dramaturg, or as the compositional, cohesive or sense-making aspects of a performance. Drawing on such views, The Practice of Dra
maturgy addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative rather than an instructive way.
In the first part, ''Dramaturgy as Working on Actions'', the editors and main author
s of the book discuss three working principles that lie at the heart of their proposition, and return to the etymology of the term ''dramaturgy'' (''drama''=action and ''ergon''=work) in order to scrutinize this further by relating it to debates on a
ction, work and post-Fordist labour.