Hyperrealism and the Everyday: The Plays of Ranters Theatre

Abstract

This article reflects on the performance texts that I have written and dramaturged with Ranters Theatre over a twenty-two-year period, covering three phases of work, each of which engages everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is textual dramaturgy, how the text is constructed, critiqued and dramaturged in order to create a finished performance text or play. Comparison is drawn with other contemporary theatre practitioners in Melbourne and overseas who also engage the everyday as a central component of their raison d’être. The application of everyday aesthetics within narrative and dramaturgical structures provides the performers with a platform to focus on the moment-to-mome..