Beyond binaries: Postdramatic theatre and its multimodal textuality

The ever-expanding forms of theatre-making in the 21st century have drawn attention to the shifting identity of text on the contemporary stage. This chapter aims to illustrate the interconnectedness of the dramatic and the performative in postdramatic practice. Based on the premise that Postdramatism advocates a theatrical egalitarianism permissive of different ways of storytelling and hybrid, multisensory narratives, the article explores ways in which common postdramatic elements have infiltrated the contemporary dramatic text; it also sets out to argue that the amalgamation of different literary and non-literary texts and stage discourses establishes a performative textuality that fosters a unique rapport between spectator and performance.