Murray, S. (2016) Contemporary collaborations and cautionary tales. In: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (eds.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings, Failures. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 27-50. ISBN 9781137462459 (doi: 10.1057/9781137462466_2)
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Abstract
This essay poses the question ‘who are the we in collaboration’? At a time when the rhetoric of collaboration and its virtues seem ubiquitous and prolific I look at different tropes and models of collaboration both within theatre and performance and beyond it, particularly within the landscape of contemporary private enterprise and management policy. The essay argues that collaboration per se is neither good nor bad, but that, beyond the affirmative rhetoric, we have to consider carefully the actual lived practices of partnerships and collective labour within the arts: who benefits, what drives the collaboration, who is excluded and what are the long-term consequences for the key players involved? The essay ends by identifying a range of highly generative, often cross-art form collaborative practices.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Keywords: | Collaboration, betrayal, managerialism, neo-liberalism, performance practice, devising, 'we'. |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Murray, Dr Simon |
| Authors: | Murray, S. |
| College/School: | College of Arts > School of Culture and Creative Arts |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9781137462459 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2016 Simon Murray |
| First Published: | First published in Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings, Failures: 27-50 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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