Canadian Theatre Review is the major magazine of record for Canadian theatre. It interests a wide spectrum of the theatre community in Canada – performers, directors, academics, teachers, critics, the theatre-going public, and professionals of all kinds involved in practice.
CTR is committed to excellence in the critical analysis and innovative coverage of current developments in Canadian theatre. It introduces new artists, publishing at least one significant new playscript in each issue, and provides a forum for the national discussion of new directions and new projects in theatre.
UPCOMING ISSUE
CTR 143 - Summer 2010
Improvisation
Edited by Ric Knowles
Improvisation in the twenty-first century may be a definitive characteristic of performance, that which constitutes its liveness, and the site at which the struggle between stultifying cultural reproduction and the libratory potential of flexible accommodation and deep listening plays itself out. When the one economic constant, ironically, is instability, when all aspects of our lives are driven by exponentially quickening technological change, and when education is increasingly under pressure to train people in skills and for jobs that by the time of their graduation are no longer needed, it is increasingly the case that the best performances, (human, corporate, or technological) are improvisational, which however mediated, mediatized, or prosthetic, are also adaptive, instantaneous, and therefore “live.” But what exactly is improvisation, and (when) is it a good thing?
This issue explores the divide between reproductive and productive improvisation—between the competitive individual improviser as the free-market entrepreneur of neoliberal ideology and purposeful group improvisation as healthy community formation and socially responsible intervention into the realm of the social.
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CTR is committed to excellence in the critical analysis and innovative coverage of current developments in Canadian theatre. It introduces new artists, publishing at least one significant new playscript in each issue, and provides a forum for the national discussion of new directions and new projects in theatre.
UPCOMING ISSUECTR 143 - Summer 2010
Improvisation
Edited by Ric Knowles
Improvisation in the twenty-first century may be a definitive characteristic of performance, that which constitutes its liveness, and the site at which the struggle between stultifying cultural reproduction and the libratory potential of flexible accommodation and deep listening plays itself out. When the one economic constant, ironically, is instability, when all aspects of our lives are driven by exponentially quickening technological change, and when education is increasingly under pressure to train people in skills and for jobs that by the time of their graduation are no longer needed, it is increasingly the case that the best performances, (human, corporate, or technological) are improvisational, which however mediated, mediatized, or prosthetic, are also adaptive, instantaneous, and therefore “live.” But what exactly is improvisation, and (when) is it a good thing?
This issue explores the divide between reproductive and productive improvisation—between the competitive individual improviser as the free-market entrepreneur of neoliberal ideology and purposeful group improvisation as healthy community formation and socially responsible intervention into the realm of the social.
Single issue - $15.00
Order your copy today!
Canadian orders, please add taxes. Orders outside Canada are payable in US funds. Shipping and handling charges applies.
Tel: 1- (416) 667-7810 email: journals@utpress.utoronto.ca website: www.utpjournals.com/ctr
University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin Street Toronto, ON M3H 5T8
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/utpjournals