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Applied Drama

The Gift of Theatre

by Helen Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014

This core text offers insight into theatre-making that takes place in communities across the world. Offering an overview of the theory that underpins practice in applied drama, this thought-provoking text outlines practices in the context of contemporary political and theoretical concerns.  It considers...
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by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic...
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The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today

An Introduction to the Work and Principles of Augusto Boal

by Ali Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic principles Boal's techniques are founded on, tracking...
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by Sheila McCormick, Dr Sheila Preston, Prof Michael Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. It allows an examination of innovative national and international practice in applied theatre that responds...
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by Dr. Rebecca D'Monte
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca...
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by Pilar Orti
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

This book has been written to support drama teachers who want to encourage their students to use physical theatre in their work. 'Your Handy Companion to Devising and Physical Theatre' will also be useful for those students who have a genuine interest in theatre and a passion to contribute to the...
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Creating Worlds

How to Make Immersive Theatre

by Jason Warren
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017

A practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner. Placing the audience at the heart of a production – not as passive bystanders but as active participants – is the impetus behind the hugely varied work of leading immersive...
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Disability and Theatre

A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts

by Stephanie Barton Farcas
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts is a step-by step manual on how to create inclusive theatre, including how and where to find actors, how to publicize productions, run rehearsals, act intricate scenes like fights and battles, work with unions, contracts, and agents,...
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Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre

Performing Literature

by Frances Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind or another? Why do contemporary practitioners turn so frequently to non-dramatic texts for inspiration? This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely situated...
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Musical Theatre

A History

by John Kenrick
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017

Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production,...
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Harlequin in Hogtown

George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions

by Neil Carson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995

Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre. Neil Carson's in-depth history of TWP traces the fortunes of many of its actors, writers, designers, and technicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013

The Art of Governance is an essential guide for trustees in the performing arts and for the artists, managers, and community leaders who work with them. This book provides the larger context in which trustees govern—the art, artists, history, institutions, and national policies of the performing...
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by Susan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes: •...
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