Michael Foster

Creating Disturbance - Provoking Imaginations: Directing in Radical Group Theatre Michael Foster

What is Radical Group Theatre? Avant garde? Underground? Fringe? Experimental? Carnivalesque? The author has suggested the term? Radical Group Theatre? a term which, he argues, best encompasses the sector formerly represented by this diverse body of theatre practice. Does Directorial Practice differ in Radical Group Theatre? Creating Disturbance: Directing Radical Group Theatre" explores the multiple terrains of contemporary performance making and analyses the diverse processes of the director's role and function. The focus is on the relationship between theoretical and practical paradigms and debates surrounding them; theatre making processes; and directorial practice in a theatre form which has emerged with a distinctive set of characteristics ideological frameworks and practices with reference to the Australian context but with clear implications of a Global perspective. The work is strongly informed by the perspectives and practices of a range of major contributors to the field and establishes an alternate set of frameworks to enable fresh engagement with the development and current praxis of an important theatre form."