Creating Disturbance - Provoking Imaginations

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.