This site began as an online presence for a research centre at University and now provides information and updates relating to the research collaboration between Synne Behrndt (University of Winchester) and Cathy Turner (University of Exeter) in our research and advocacy of the development of ‘expanded’ dramaturgies.

We would like to acknowledge that we have adopted the term ‘expanded dramaturgy’ from Peter Eckersall’s article,‘Towards an Expanded Dramaturgical Practice: A Report on the Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project’, Theatre Research International, 31.3., pp.283-297. In using it, we imply both the diversity of emerging performance forms and structures and contemporary dramaturgical practices.

Our research together includes Dramaturgy and Performance, Cathy Turner and Synne Behrndt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 and an edition of Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 20, No. 2, 2010, on ‘new dramaturgies’. This site will also contain information about our individual research.

The site is currently being updated and revised, so please bear with us while changes are sorted out.