Description: "For more than two decades, the members of Tectonic Theater Project have been rigorously experimenting with the process of theatrical creation. Here they set forth a detailed manual of their devising method and a thorough chronicle of how they wrote some of their best-known works. This book is for all theater artists--actors, writers, designers, and directors--who wish to create work that embraces the unbridled potential of the stage."--Amazon.com.
Review Quotes: "Tectonic Theater Project is a monumental and pioneering voice in American theater. Their work gracefully merges the political and the poetic to excavate truths about the human condition." --Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
"For theater professionals, this invaluable book offers boundless inspiration as it reinvents the way in which great plays are made. For theater enthusiasts, it offers thrilling, behind-the-scenes accounts of the birth of seminal works. . . . It is every bit as exciting as the indelible scripts the Tectonic Theater Project creates. --Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter "Tectonic Theater artists give us an insider's perspective to their uniquely diverse and imaginative Moment Work process. A powerful wake up call to artists." --Mark Bly, former Chair, MFA Playwriting Program Yale School of Drama "An important text for the field of devised theater-making, and theater-making in general. . . . This book invites us to interrogate how a play is made, piece by piece (or moment by moment), from initial research through to experimentation, sequencing, and composition." --Andrew Kircher, Director, Devised Theater Initiative, The Public Theater "Moment Work has become the foundation of my devising methodology: these practices elevate the theatre maker's ability to precisely articulate their artistic intentions, which makes for strong devisers as well as actors, directors, designers and playwrights." --Rich Brown, Professor of Acting and Movement, Western Washington University "I have been devising theater for over twenty years. . . . Encountering Moment Work was extremely refreshing because it introduces a crystal-clear vocabulary for creating and analyzing devised work. It should be considered the "ur" method of devising." --Dr. Rachel Bowditch, Associate Professor at Arizona State University and author of On the Edge of Utopia