ADN Re/View Critical Responses & Discussion

ADN Re/View (Vol. 1)


SPEAKERS: PETER ECKERSALL, NESS ROQUE, NANAKO NAKAJIMA

MODERATOR-PROVOCATEUR: CORRIE TAN


“Dramaturgy – both as a theory and a practice – is always imbricated in a network of relations. It enables and arises from collaboration, contestation and disruption.” – Peter Eckersall (2016)


The first issue of ADN Re/View (Vol.1) charts some of the key ideas that emerged and circulated about dramaturgy and dramaturging in Asia. Featuring practitioner-dramaturgs Peter Eckersall, Ness Roque and Nanako Nakajima, and led by Corrie Tan as provocateur-moderator, the online discussion will unpack key themes of tracing Asian dramaturgy, mapping the terrain and dramaturging the ‘inter’.


Event Details:

Date: 28 July 2021

Time: 8pm SGT

Venue: Zoom

Free, donations encouraged. Click to register.


This event is over. Watch the recording below.

Download a copy of ADN Re/View Vol 1 here.

 Video Documentation:

Download the transcript of this video here.

ADN Re/View (Vol. 2)  


SPEAKERS: GEE IMAAN SEMMALAR, JANICE POON, HELLY MINARTI

MODERATOR-PROVOCATEUR: KOK HENG LEUN


Dramaturgy should be viewed as an adaptive process that is able to respond to place, people and use.” – Janet Pillai


With the wide-ranging curiosities relating to dramaturgy and its expanded notions, "Vol. 2" of the ADN Re/View E-zine series considers how ‘tracing’ offers a frame to work with when making sense of how dramaturgy affects our lives – in performance-making and in the everyday.

 

Whether the discussion is about history, tradition, gender, sexuality or race, the performance work that is referred to by varied ADN presenters provides a resource from which they extrapolate or theorise ideas that matter to them. How does one’s subjective experience shape the dramaturgical process in theatre and in life?

 

In this online roundtable discussion, practitioner-dramaturgs Gee Imaan Semmalar, Janice Poon, Helly Minarti and led by provocateur-moderator Kok Heng Leun, will respond to and unpack key points brought up in Vol. 2.


Event Details:

Date: 4 October 2021

Time: 8pm SGT

Venue: Zoom

Free, donations encouraged. Click to register.


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Download a copy of ADN Re/View Vol 2 here.

Video Documentation:

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ADN Re/View (Vol. 3)


SPEAKERS: JANET PILLAI, DAVID PLEDGER

MODERATOR-PROVOCATEUR: CHARLENE RAJENDRAN


The third and final volume of ADN Re/View plays with the notion of framing in dramaturgical thinking and the work of a dramaturg. A recurring challenge for a dramaturg, as with an artist, is to work out what really needs to be done and how best to do this. Varied options may emerge as to the kinds of frames and framing mechanisms that would best serve the work, and shaping the frames is an aspect of artistry that may not always be noticed.


Rounding up the ADN Re/View series of e-publications, dramaturgs Janet Pillai and David Pledger are invited to respond to the questions and themes arising from Vol. 3, Framing, as well as previous volumes - Vol. 1, Mapping and Vol. 2, Tracing. Facilitated by Charlene Rajendran, the conversation will also look at their thoughts on dramaturgy and dramaturgs in the current climate.


Event Details:

Date: 11 January 2022

Time: 6pm SGT

Venue: Zoom

Free, donations encouraged. Click to register.


This event is over. Watch the recording below.

Download a copy of ADN Re/View Vol 3 here.

 Video Documentation:

Download the transcript of this video here.