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Contemporary Storytelling Performance

Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
 
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Short description:

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.

Long description:

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.


It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Clayton?s reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform.


This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures


List of Interviews


Acknowledgements


 


Introduction


0.1 Storytelling as Professional Performance


0.2 Female Artists as Storytellers


0.3 Talking to Storytellers


0.4 Storytelling Presences



Chapter 1 ? Storytelling Presences





1.1 Sarah Rundle, The Poorest Hee (2013)






1.2 Clare Murphy, The Nine Muses of Queen?s Crescent (2022)






1.3 Jo Blake, Blodeuwedd Untold (2018)






1.4 Summary: Contemporary Presences






Chapter 2 ? Storytelling Authorship


2.1 Alys Torrance, Up Endings! (2021)


2.2 Rachel Rose Reid, Silence (2018)


2.3 Mara Menzies, Blood and Gold (2019)


2.4 Summary: Authoring Storytelling Performances



Chapter 3 ? Devising Storytelling


3.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Girl and The Snake Witch (2018)


3.2 Alys Torrance, Stoopid (2019)


3.3 Debs Newbold, Outrageous Fortune (2020)


3.4 Summary: Devising New Storytellings



Chapter 4 ? Aural Storytelling





4.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Devil?s Violin (2019)






4.2 Laura Sampson, Three-Crossing River (2022)


4.3 Debs Newbold, Lost in Blue (2022)





4.4 Summary: Aurality and Story Performance



Chapter 5 ? Sites of Storytelling





5.1 Tamar Eluned Williams, Pathways/Llwybrau (2020)






5.2 Vanessa Woolf, Trees (2021) and Ghosts of the Thames (2020)






5.3 Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Game of Seven Candles (2021)





5.4 Summary: Sites of Storytelling



Chapter 6 ? Story-Performance in New Media





6.1 Mara Menzies, The Giver of Joy (2021)


6.2 Jo Blake, What Do You See With Your Eye to the Keyhole? (2020)






6.3 Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Kitchen Goddess (2020)





6.4 Summary: Story, Media, and Emergent Spaces



Chapter 7 ? Story-Performance and Social Practice





7.1 Rachel Rose Reid, Sofa Story Club (2020)






7.2 Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Goddess Lounge (2020-21)






7.3 Pyn Stockman, Tell It To The Bees (2022)





7.4 Summary: Making Social Rituals



Chapter 8 ? Storytelling and Slam





8.1 Clare Murphy, Myth Off (2011)






8.2 Lucy Lill & Alys Torrance, Women Who Gave No F**ks (2019)





8.3 Summary: Story, Slam, and Inventing Traditions



Conclusion





9.1 Sally Pomme Clayton, The Frog Princess Punked (2019)






9.2 Contemporary Storytelling Performance





Index