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Reframing Immersive Theatre
Imagined Theatres
v pevné vazbě, 329 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, XI/2016
ISBN 9781137366030
v měkké vazbě, 312 stran
vyd. Routledge, IV/2017
ISBN 9781138122055
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This diverse collection of essays and testimonies challenges critical orthodoxies about
the twenty-first century boom in immersive theatre and performance. A culturally and
institutionally eclectic range of producers and critics comprehensively reconsider the
term 'immersive' and the practices it has been used to describe. Applying ecological,
phenomenological and political ideas to both renowned and lesser-known
performances, contributing scholars and artists offers fresh ideas on the ethics and
practicalities of participatory performance.
These ideas interrogate claims that have frequently been made by producers and by
critics that participatory performance extends engagement. These claims are
interrogated across nine dimensions of engagement: bodily, technological, spatial,
temporal, spiritual, performative, pedagogical, textual, social. Enquiry is focussed
along the following seams of analysis: the participant as co-designer; the challenges
facing the facilitator of immersive/participatory performance; the challenges facing the
critic of immersive/participatory performance; how and why immersion troubles
boundaries between the material and the magical.
Palgrave Handbook of
Musical Theatre Producers
v pevné vazbě, 516 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, IV/2017
ISBN 9781137440297
Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars
and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions
describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and
impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection,
asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre.
These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: * In what way is writing
itself a performance? * How do we understand the relationship between real
performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form
the basis for real theatrical productions? * Are we not always imagining theatres when we
read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we are
seeing?
Authenticity in
Contemporary Theatre and Performance
v pevné vazbě, 296 stran
vyd. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,
III/2017
ISBN 9781350000964
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Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars
and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and
microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be
possible and impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief
accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the
theatre.
These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: * In what way is
writing itself a performance? * How do we understand the relationship between real
performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form
the basis for real theatrical productions? * Are we not always imagining theatres when
we read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we
are seeing?
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Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing
to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very
evasive.
This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a
theoretical framework for analysis. Daniel Schulz argues that authenticity is sought out
and marked by the individual and springs from a culture that is perceived as inherently
fake and lacking depth. The study examines three types of performances that exemplify
this structure of feeling: intimate theatre seen in Forced Entertainment productions such
as Quizoola!(1996, 2015), as well as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend
Goed's Internal (2009); immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk's shows The
Masque of the Red Death (2007) and The Drowned Man (2013) which provide a visceral,
sensate understanding for audiences; finally, the study scrutinises the popular category of
documentary theatre through various examples such as Robin Soan's Talking to
Terrorists (2005), David Hare's Stuff Happens (2004), Edmund Burke's Black Watch
(2007) and Dennis Kelly's pseudo-documentary play Taking Care of Baby (2007).
It is specifically the value of the document that lends such performances their truth-value
and consequently their authenticity. The study analyses how the success of these
disparate categories of performance can be explained through a common concern with
notions of truth and authenticity.
Self in Performance
One Minute Plays
v pevné vazbě, 271 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, III/2017
ISBN 9781137541536
v měkké vazbě, 396 stran
vyd. Routledge, II/2017
ISBN 9781138675063
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This book is the first to examine the performance of autobiographical material as a
theatrical form, a research subject, and a therapeutic method. Contextualizing
personal performance within psychological and theatrical paradigms, the book
identifies and explores core concepts, such as the function of the director/therapist
throughout the creative process, the role of the audience, and the dramaturgy involved
in constructing such performances. It thus provides insights into a range of
Autobiographic Therapeutic Performance forms, including Self-Revelatory and
Autoethnographic Performance.
Can you really write a play that lasts a minute? The one minute play offers a unique
challenge to actors, directors and writers: how do you create a whole world, where actors
have room to perform and where audiences have a true experience all in 60 seconds?
One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre demystifies the super-short-form
play, demonstrating that this rich, accessible format offers great energy and variety not
only to audiences but to everyone involved in its creation and performance.
Addressing issues of identity, memory, authenticity, self-reflection, self-indulgence,
and embodied self-representation, the book presents, with both breadth and depth, a
look at this fascinating field, gathering contributions by notable professionals around
the world. Methods and approaches are illustrated with case examples that range from
clients in private practice in California, through students in drama therapy training in
the UK, to inmates in Lebanese prisons.
This handbook includes: * An anthology of 200 one-minute plays selected from the
annual Gone in 60 Seconds festival. * A toolbox of exercises, methodologies and
techniques for educators, practitioners and workshop leaders at all levels. * Tips and
advice on the demands of storytelling, inclusivity and creative challenges. * Detailed
practical information about creating your own minute festival, including play selection,
running order, staging and marketing. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Steve Ansell
and Rose Burnett Bonczek present an invaluable guide for anyone intrigued by the art of
creating, producing and performing a one minute play.
Social and Political Theatre in
21st-Century Britain
Creativity and Community
among Autism-Spectrum Youth
v měkké vazbě, 280 stran
vyd. Bloomsbury Academic, II/2017
ISBN 9781474213165
v pevné vazbě, 301 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, XII/2016
ISBN 9781137547965
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In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the
individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens.
This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out
in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the
process of being truthful to the contemporary experience has also redefined theatrical
form and content. Built around a series of case-studies of seminal contemporary plays
exploring issues of social and political crisis, the volume is augmented by interviews
with UK and international directors, artistic directors and the playwrights whose work is
examined. As well as considering UK stage productions, Angelaki analyses European,
North American and Australian productions, of post-2000 plays by writers including:
Caryl Churchill, Mike Bartlett, Dennis Kelly, Simon Stephens, Martin Crimp, debbie
tucker green, Duncan Macmillan, Nick Payne and Lucy Prebble. At the heart of the
analysis and of the plays discussed is an appreciation of what interconnects artists and
audiences, enabling the kind of mutual recognition that fosters the feeling of
collectivity. As the book argues, this is the state whereby the theatre meets its social
imperative by eradicating the distance between stage and spectator and creating a
genuinely shared space of ideas and dialogue, taking on topics including the economy,
materialism, debt culture, the environment, urban protest, social media and mental
health.
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This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the
developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The
contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism
spectrum may find acceptance, affirmation, and kinship with others. "Positive social
updraft" characterizes the social channels through which people of difference might be
swept up into broader cultural currents such that they feel valued, appreciated, and
empowered.
These currents not only have an upward motion themselves, they also catch other
elements in their draft and carry them up in their flow. A social updraft provides cultural
meditational means that include people in a current headed "upward," allowing people of
atypical makeups to become fully involved in significant cultural activity that brings them a
feeling of social belonging.
Early Modern Actors and
Shakespeare's Theatre
v pevné vazbě, 240 stran
vyd. Bloomsbury Academic, II/2017
ISBN 9781472576033
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What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ
from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre:
Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests
new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of
their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and
records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction.
Creative Collaborations Through
Inclusive Theatre and
Community Based Learning
v pevné vazbě, 196 stran
vyd. Palgrave Macmillan, XII/2016
ISBN 9781137599254
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In this book, the authors share stories of creative, community based collaborations to
illustrate how educators can use the arts to expand creative thinking and promote social
justice beyond the classroom. Using their work in theatre classrooms as a central point,
examples of innovative, inclusive programs designed to inspire learning for people of
diverse abilities are presented. Through this examination, Kramer and Fask reveal the
excitement, challenges, and unexpected surprises that come along with implementing a
creative approach to learning.
Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find
it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place
within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances,
military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and
textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as
extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This
book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early
modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of
theatricality in the period.
Theatre for Children in Hospital
v pevné vazbě, 188 stran
vyd. University of Chicago Press,
X/2016
ISBN 9781783206452
Theatre for Youth II
v měkké vazbě, 488 stran
vyd. University of Texas Press,
XI/2016
ISBN 9781477310045
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Recent decades have seen a new appreciation develop for applied theater and the
role of arts-based activities in healthcare. This book looks specifically at the place of
theater for children who are hospitalized, showing how powerfully it can enhance their
social and mental well-being. Child-led performances, for example, can be used as a
technique to distract young patients from hospitalization, prepare them for painful
procedures, and teach them calming techniques to control their own pre- or postoperative stress.
When Theatre for Youth: Twelve Plays with Mature Themes was published in 1986, it met
a need for plays that could help young people deal with some of the more difficult realities
of life. Responding to the sweeping changes in society over the succeeding thirty years,
Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer have assembled a new collection of plays
that reflects not only on themes such as aging, death and dying, friendship, courage,
conformity, maturation, sexuality, and struggles with moral judgment but also on gender
identity, poverty, diversity, and discrimination.
Persephone Sextou details the key theoretical contexts and practical features of
theater for children, in the process offering motivation, guidance, and inspiration for
practitioners who want to incorporate performance into their treatment regimen.
Theatre for Youth II: More Plays with Mature Themes presents twelve plays, nine of them
new to this anthology, that offer a rich variety of original stories (The Tomato Plant Girl,
The Arkansaw Bear, Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle), compelling adaptations (The
Afternoon of the Elves, Broken Hearts, Courage!), historical drama (Mother Hicks, Johnny
Tremain), diverse themes (La Ofrenda, The Transition of Doodle Pequeno), friendship
(The Selfish Giant), and future societies (With Two Wings). As these plays explore some
of the most challenging themes for today's youth, including the difficulties of single
parenthood, divorce, race relations, sexuality, and gender discrimination, they share
messages fundamental to us all: open your imagination and dare to dream; embrace life;
honor your personal passion, beliefs, and creativity; take a risk; and love with all your
heart.