Drama And Performance

Author : Simon Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134565283
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama/Theatre/Performance written by Simon Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and institutions with which they are associated. Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis: analyze attitudes to drama, theatre and performance at different historical junctures trace a range of political interventions into the field(s) explore and contextualise the institutionalisation of drama and theatre as university subjects, then the emergence of 'performance' as practice, theory and academic disciplines guide readers through major approaches to drama, theatre and performance, from theatre history, through theories of ritual or play, to the idea of performance as paradigm for a postmodern age discuss crucial terms such as action, alienation, catharsis, character, empathy, interculturalism, mimesis, presence or representation in a substantial 'keywords' section. Continually linking their analysis to wider cultural concerns, the authors here offer the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide available to a vibrant, fast-moving field and vigorous debates about its nature, purpose and place in the academy.

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444317381
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama written by W. B. Worthen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335233171
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama in Performance written by Raymond Williams and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1991-06-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Williams' reputation rests mainly on his contribution to literary and cultural studies, but he was also an important critic and theoretician in the field of drama. "Drama in Performance", first published in 1954, pioneered a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of plays, locating dramatic texts in the conditions and conventions of their original performance and reading them to disclose their performance potentialities. This method, which anticipated such contemporary developments as performance analysis and the semiotics of drama, is here applied to representative texts from key periods of the history of drama: the Greek stage, the medieval theatre-in-the-round and pageant-wagon, the Elizabethan public playhouse, London commercial theatres from the Restoration to the late 19th century, the naturalist stage of the Moscow Art Theatre, 20th century experimental drama, and contemporary film. This edition presents the text as Williams revised it in 1966. In addition it provides an updated bibliography of work in this field, a complete listing of all Williams' relevant writings, and a new Introduction (by Graham Holderness) which locates the book both within modern dramatic theory and criticism and within Williams' own work and demonstrates its continuing challenge and relevance.

Author : Manon van de Water
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317628934
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama and Education written by Manon van de Water and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama and Education provides a practical, comprehensive guide to drama as a tool for teaching and learning. It is among the first practical drama and performance textbooks that address brain-based, neuroscientific research, making the argument that creativity is necessary in our lives, that embodied learning is natural and essential, and that contextual learning helps us find our place in society in relationship to other peoples and cultures. As well as a historical and theoretical overview of the field, it provides rationale and techniques for several specific methodologies: linear drama, process-oriented drama, drama for social justice, and performance art. Each approach is supplemented with sample lesson plans, activities, ideas for differentiation, and extensive bibliographies. The topics are discussed from five key angles: • Historical and theoretical foundations • Curricular applications • Practical toolkits for a range of classrooms and learning environments • Different strategies for lesson plans • Extension options for longer workshops. Alongside these core methods, the integration of other innovative forms—from performance art to Theatre of the Oppressed—into drama-based learning is explored, as well as the pragmatic concerns such as assessment, planning, and advocacy for arts learning and arts education partnerships. Drama and Education is the comprehensive textbook for teachers and students on Applied Theatre and Theatre and Education courses.

Author : Rachel Van M. Baumer
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120807723
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanskrit Drama in Performance written by Rachel Van M. Baumer and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY

Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574197
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253217016
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Drama and Performance written by John Conteh-Morgan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films.

Author : Robert J. Landy
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898625981
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persona and Performance written by Robert J. Landy and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that drama is not only a metaphor for everyday life, but also provides a means of self-examination and life enhancement. Asserting that emotional well-being depends upon an individual's capacity to manage a complex and often contradictory set of roles, the author shows how role offers a uniquely effective method for working through significant personal problems when used as an element of drama therapy. The volume combines theoretical discussions with extensive clinical illustrations, and covers issues including learning to live with role ambivalence, complexity, and contradiction.

Author : Anthony Frost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316245
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance written by Anthony Frost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance. It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theory and practice, this new edition encompasses Theatre and performance studies as well as drama, acknowledging the rapid reconfiguration of these fields in recent years. Its coverage also now extends to improvisation in the USA, cinema, LARPing, street events and the improvising audience, while also looking at improv's relationship to stand-up comedy, jazz, poetry and free movement practices. With an index of exercises and an extensive bibliography, this book is indispensable to students of improvisation.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408125196
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Games written by Clive Barker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.