This soft cover version of What's the Story: Essays About Art, Theater and Storytelling from Focal Press who is an award-winning theater maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theater, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays, she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a 'product of postmodernism', can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theater practitioners can think of themselves not as stagers of plays but orchestrators of social interactions and participants in an on-going dialogue about the future.
This compelling new book is characteristically made up of chapters with one-word titles: Spaciousness, Narrative, Heat, Limits, Error, Politics, Arrest, Empathy, Opposition, Collaboration, and Sustenance. In addition to dipping into neuroscience, performance theory, and sociology, Bogart also recounts vivid stories from her own life. But as neuroscience indicates, the event of remembering what happened is in fact the creation of something new.