Staging and Re- cycling In Staging and Re- cycling, John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-v isit and re- appraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-a pproaching and re-f raming of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a collection of reprinted and first- published (although previously presented) textual material interspersed with editorial material – reflective essays from John and Knut on these pieces from the archives and original essays from invited scholars that explore the theme of repetition and re- cycling. The project has a number of aims: to suggest how the status of ‘new’ with regard to academic and staged dramaturgical materials may be re- framed; to re- examine these through certain lenses and concepts (re- cycling; re- working; the spectator; landscape, post- and other dramaturgies); to explore the possibilities of critique offered by particular modes of juxtaposition, dia- logue and dialectic; to offer further provocations to received ideas; and to retrieve and re- approach material, once published or presented, that becomes ‘lost’ in archives or on library shelves. As shown here, the role of the hyphen acts as an indicator to the status of ‘re-’ in relation to the ‘new’. Written for scholars and academics, researchers, undergraduate and post- graduate students, and practitioners working in all forms for theatre and per- formance, Staging and Re-c ycling suggests a new form of dialogue between work, authors and readers, and draws out threads that extend back into the past and potentially forward into the future. John Keefe is a Senior Lecturer in the Cass School of Art, Architecture & Design at London Metropolitan University. Knut Ove Arntzen is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies The Dramaturgy of the Door Stuart Andrews and Matthew Wagner Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage Eero Laine Performing Home Stuart Andrews The Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins James Moreno Shakespeare in Singapore Performance, Education, and Culture Philip Smith A Cruel Theatre of Self- Immolations Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture Grzegorz Ziółkowski Code- Choice and Identity Construction on Stage Sirkku Aaltonen Staging and Re- cycling Retrieving, Reflecting and Re- framing the Archive Edited by John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen Skateboarding and Femininity Gender, Space- Making and Expressive Movement Dani Abulhawa For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge- Advances- in- Theatre- Performance- Studies/ book- series/ RATPS Staging and Re- cycling Retrieving, Reflecting and Re- framing the Archive Edited by John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen; individual chapters, the contributors The right of John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978- 0- 367- 85939- 8 (hbk) ISBN: 978- 1- 003- 01589- 5 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Newgen Publishing UK Contents List of figures viii Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements and permissions xi 1 Editorial introduction 1 JOHN KEEFE AND KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 2 Play Beckett: Beckett’s performance dramaturgy as total theatre (2003) 10 JOHN KEEFE 3 The PG and FPG: Stage action or stage metaphysics? (2005) 18 JOHN KEEFE 4 Essay 1: Archival foundations and first reflections 27 JOHN KEEFE 5 A letter on recycling Sam 36 RICHARD CUMING 6 Dramaturgical dissolution in the ambient (2007) 42 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 7 The resurrected theatre machine: A postdramatic paradox (2008) 54 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 8 Essay 1: Theatre studies, self- reflection and creativity: Understanding theory through metaphors 67 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN vi Contents 9 Berkoff’s ‘Londons’: Staging psycho- geographies of the feared and the ecstatic (2009) 75 JOHN KEEFE 10 Recycling sources and experiencing physical theatre in educating professionals (2009) 86 JOHN KEEFE 11 Essay 2: Circling around: Looking(s) and empathies 97 JOHN KEEFE 12 Retaining and reframing: Notes on processes of remembering in Rosemary Butcher’s choreography- making 107 STEFANIE SACHSENMAIER 13 On telling the world and ‘recycling’ in the new theatre (2009) 115 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 14 Essay 2: Researching, re- making, re-c ycling 120 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 15 Recycling, situationism and postspectacular theatre 128 ANDRÉ EIERMANN 16 Play(ing) it again: Recycling as theatres, histories, memories (2010) 134 JOHN KEEFE 17 Essay 3: Spectatorial ghosts 144 JOHN KEEFE 18 Re- cycle/u p- cycle: A conversation 156 GIAN CARLO ROSSI AND JACEK LUDWIG SCARSO 19 Producing marginality and post- mainstream in independent theatre (2007) 167 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 20 Essay 3: Nordic inter- action: Avant- garde to visual performance – the ritualistic and mechanical 182 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 21 Impossible Theatres and the possible; some dramaturgical provocations and responses to the opening statement, and implications (2015) 190 JOHN KEEFE Contents vii 22 Essay 4: Further paths, returning threads 200 JOHN KEEFE 23 Drama in landscapes (2014) 208 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 24 Essay 4: Directing and choreographing as a free and open mise- en- scène: From risky auteurship to re- cycling theatre 222 KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 25 Dancing with your cycle – theatre and performance research as archivist practice 229 ANNELIS KUHLMANN 26 Editorial conclusion 235 JOHN KEEFE AND KNUT OVE ARNTZEN 27 Selected other published material 241 JOHN KEEFE AND KNUT OVE ARNTZEN Index 243 Figures 12.1 Retrospective Rosemary Butcher, Tanz im August, Berlin, 2015. Photograph: Dajana Lothert. 109 12.2 Secrets of the Open Sea, Choreography: Rosemary Butcher, Dancer: Lucy Suggate, 2014. Film and Photograph:  Sam Williams. 111 12.3 Spaces 4, Studio, 1981. Choreography: Rosemary Butcher; Artist: Heinz- Dieter Pietsch. Photograph: Heinz- Dieter Pietsch. 112 Contributors Knut Ove Arntzen is Professor of Theatre Studies, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He is a free- lance theatre critic, consultant to festivals in Bergen and Montreal, and visiting Professor at universities in Kaunas, Antwerp and Frankfurt. Contributing to international conferences in Glasgow, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Yaoundé, he publishes within the scope of a visual kind of dramaturgy and post- mainstream theatre. Richard Cuming is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Winchester. His teaching and research is in physical theatre, particularly the synthesis of the practices of the clown with other forms of contemporary performance. He was a founder member of clown troupe Zippo & Co, and in 2017 published his article in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal on their training in 1984 with 71-y ear- old var- iety acrobat Johnny Hutch. From 1986– 2001 he ran fishproductions, dedicated to performance in non- theatre spaces. André Eiermann is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Agder in Kristiansand (Norway). He has formerly worked at several universities in Germany, including the University of the Arts Berlin, the Goethe- University Frankfurt (Main), and the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Justus- Liebig- University Giessen. He is active as a performing artist and collaborates as freelance dramaturge with various other artists, both in the Norwegian and in the international context. His PhD thesis Postspektakuläres Theater (Postspectacular Theatre) was published in 2009. John Keefe has worked as a lecturer in theatre-fi lm- performance, theatre dir- ector, performance dramaturge and researcher since 1979 across the UK, Lithuania and Germany. He was awarded his PhD by Prior Publication (2013) under the title of A Spectatorial Dramaturgy: Ethical Principles of Re- Cycling, Habitus and Estrangement. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the CASS, London Metropolitan University.