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Teaching Drama Through Practice
Theatre Praxis
Teaching Drama Through Practice
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This collection of essays is in no way an attempt to instruct people in ways to teach Drama. Nor is it homogeneous in its range of arguments. What is attempted is a lively discourse on a variety of practices that, by recognising their clearly rooted and often diverse ideologies, we may term praxis. The challenge here is that no practice may claim an ideological innocence, appealing to some vague transcendental natural state of existence. One of the problems when we encounter practical work in the context of the university Drama department is its uneasy relationship with the more conventionally accepted disciplines. Often the answer has been in the form of a retreat into subjectivity and mystery; denying the place of practice in the material world. Each of the essays in this volume challenges that perception, but all of them challenge it in very different ways. What they do have in common is a rejection of the idea that learning is a passive activity.
Table of Contents
PART 1: EMPOWERMENT Introduction; Christopher McCullough
Creative Actor (empowering the performer); Dorinda Hulton
Performing Identities (empowering performers and spectators); Lesley Wade Soule
Learning Through Story (empowering teachers); Stephen Cockett
PART 2: DIALOGUES WITH TEXTS Introduction; Christopher McCullough
An Approach to Playreading; Peter Thomson
Ancient Greek Theatre and Society: Problems of Study, Reception and Understanding; Graham Ley
Approaches to Adaptation; James MacDonald
PART 3: CASE STUDIES IN RESEARCHED PERFORMANCE Introduction; Christopher McCullough
Timor Mortis : Improvising Tragedy and Epic; Anthony Frost
Melodrama and Methodism; Peter Thomson
The Politics of Theatricality; Christopher McCullough
Index.
Product details
| Published | 30 Oct 1998 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9780333649961 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | New Directions in Theatre |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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