Jonathan Meth on disability arts, dramaturgy and asking questions

Ben Yeoh Chats

Jonathan Meth is a dramaturg, extraordinaire, director, curator, very involved in the European theatre and disability arts. He's a lecturer at Goldsmiths. He's worked with many of the major theatre organizations in Britain, and he's a fascinating theatre thinker.

We speak about dramaturgy and theatre as playwright lead and theatre as colloboration lead. We discuss disability arts and a little about what autism has taught us. Jonathan looks at theatre funding and infrastrucutre and what it might mean to build back differently.

We discuss his work with Fence and what he has learned teaching a wide mix of international students.

Jonathan makes a case for the power of questions and curiosity.

A transcript is available here along with video.