Hyperrealism and Everyday Performance: How is the text constituted in Everyday Theatre?

Abstract

As a professional writer since the early nineties, I have written, dramaturged and developed over forty texts for theatre or performance. In 1994, I founded Ranters Theatre along with other graduates of the VCA School of Drama; it is this company that has produced the majority of my texts, and with whom I have shared an ongoing exploration of the practice of everyday and hyperreal aesthetics and processes in relation to writing and theatrical production. My work with hyperrealism and everyday theatre began in the early nineties alongside companies such as Oriza Hirata’s Seinendan, Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players, Philippe Quesne’s Vivarium Studios, Pan Pan, Back to Back Theatre Compa..