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A lot of plays are bad. And one bad play, it seems, can turn us off theater for good. So, what can we learn from the bad play? Jordan Tannahill, after talking to theater heavy-hitters from Australia to Berlin, offers a roadmap for a renewed theater, one that is less insular, less insulting, with better infrastructure. In reconsidering dramaturgy, programming strategies, and alternative models for producing, he aims to turn theater from an obligation to a destination.
Jordan Tannahill is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His production of Sheila Heti's All Our Happy Days Are Stupid will be performed in New York in 2015.
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- Published on: 2015-05-11
- Released on: 2015-05-11
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Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, theatre director, and filmmaker. His plays and short films have been presented in theatres, festivals, and galleries across Canada and internationally. He received the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for his book Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays. In collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan runs the alternative art-space Videofag, out of a defunct barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Not a completely new point of view, but an interesting book promoting avant garde theatre and new intrepretations of old shows By H. Williams I’m the perfect audience for Jordan Tannahill’s book "Theatre of the Unimpressed." I go to a play or live performance every couple of months as a special treat. Lately I've been leaving the theatre thinking, “I guess I’m glad I saw that award winner so that I know what people are taking about” or “I’m not sure what all the buzz is about.” Few shows stick with me for a long time.Tannahill is an award-winning playwright and theatre director from Toronto. He helps run a miniscule alternative art space in Toronto. He practices what he preaches, so he’s the perfect person to criticize the movie-star-filled blockbusters and hollow Broadway spectaculars that make up so much of today’s popular theatre-going experience.This slim volume is overflowing with ideas and "angry young gay man" criticism of current theatre practice. Tannahill begins by criticizing the popular play "Driving Miss Daisy." Every regional theatre has performed it, but Tannahill compares it to a bland orgy that he once organized. All the right components are in place but it winds up being a boring slough that never takes off.One of Tannahill’s central critiques revolves around the “well-made play.” Adopted in the early nineteenth century, this concept describes a play in which the crucial part of the story has taken place before the onstage action and the climax comes late in the play to explain the drama that just appeared on the stage. (Oscar Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest," Tennessee Williams’s "Suddenly Last Summer," and Tracy Letts’s "August: Osage Country" present textbook examples of this formula, offering speeches that disclose crucial information only at the very end of the play.) Tannahill argues that this kind of stage realism does not exploit the possibilities that live theatre offers.One of Tannahill's major arguments centers on the lack of risk and the avoidance of failure in most contemporary fare. He summarizes Jack Halberstam’s recent book "The Queer Art of Failure," which offers failure as a form of resistance to capitalism and heteronormity, where queerness can exist outside society’s view of “success.” He also praises Samuel Beckett’s striking stage images and theatrical situations that trade in poetic logic rather than naturalism.Between these two major critiques, Tannahill points out a series of other issues that limit new productions: Dramaturges try to turn new plays into something that the playwright didn’t intend. Companies repeatedly perform “museum theatre” in fixed ways, when updated staging or creative casting could re-invigorate an old chestnut. Stage companies need to fill large single-use commercial spaces with subscription theatre attendees.As solutions, Tannahill points out the advantages that live theatre offers over filmed presentations, and the unexpected possibilities of web-based performance. He offers examples of the authentic “life” that a spontaneous actor can bring to a performance.Tannahill offers plenty of examples of successful shows that he’s directed or seen. These are probably the best parts of the book. He generally avoids academic terms and assumes that readers are not theatre queens who will automatically be familiar with every play and playwright he mentions. But "Theatre of the Unimpressed" is for thinking theatre supporters, not casual matinee goers.Tannahill believes that one bad experience can turn off a person from the theatre forever. That hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’m now going to make an effort to see more truly live theatre that exploits the possibilities of a live performance and that introduces some risk into my theatre routine. For the first time in quite a while, I’m looking forward to going to the theatre again.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An insightful, passionately argued treatise By Greg Trefry A very insightful book full of excellent examples drawn from a load of theater viewing, reading and conversations with smart theater artists. His argument might have benefited from some examples of work drawn further afield from theater and performance.None of the ideas advanced here are super provocative, but that's probably a good thing: he's not beating a drum to his own tune, rather trying to rally people behind an idea which seems very much in motion.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. High five Tannahill By Dominique Coughlin This guy put down many of my own impressions and issues with theatre in our contemporary reality. It's incredibly refreshing as a practitioner to read theatrical theory that is up to speed with out times and societies. I've been highly recommending this to everyone in the field.
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