Supplements to the international conference on postdramatic theatre
After Theatre is a publication
that features a collection of e
ssays and documentation materia
l on the 2006 theatre conferenc
e ‘Na(ar) het theater’ at the A
msterdam School of the Arts. Th
is text series is published to
stimulate multidisciplinary exc
hange between practitioners, dr
amaturges, producers and theore
ticians and to discuss the frag
ile relationship between the pa
st, present and future of theat
tre.
In terms of navigation After Th
eatre presents a new, alternati
ve way of accessing information
by keyword search: each page o
f text features a list of words
on the page which also appear
in the book’s index. This index
consists of more than 2.421 ke
ywords that were recorded durin
g the ‘Na(ar) het theater’ conf
erence and represent the curren
t language of postdramatic thea
tre. While sorted according to
the frequency of occurrence, th
ese tags indicate all the relev
ante topics discussed on the re
spective page and allow for spe
edy navigation through the book
’s content.
In early 2008 After Theatre was
awarded the Certificate of Typ
ographic Excellence by the Type
Directors Club New York.