Theater - History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Teaching - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Drama - Literary Criticism, Theater - Direction & Production
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Overview
In the founding of the first drama department in a Britsih university almost fifty years ago, a debate was instituted regarding the nature of the discipline. Was the discipline academic in a conventional sesne? Where did practical theatre making fit into the curriculum? If there was to be theatre practice, how was it different from the work already undertaken by the drama conservatoires? Theatre Praxis addresses the debate beyond these now familiar questions, seeking to define practice in terms of praxis ; that is, practical work that does not claim an ideological neutrality, but seeks to theorize practice as praxis ; that is, a practice that recognizes its potential for change.
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Explores specific aspects of a process-oriented approach to the teaching of drama in a university. Part I discusses the question of empowerment of the performers, spectators, and teacher, while Part II examines issues of dialogues with texts, playreading, and adaptation. Part III offers three case studies in researched performance, each of which focuses on a specific project undertaken in a university drama department: improvising tragedy and epic, politics of theatricality, and melodrama. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
November 15, 1998
Publisher
Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1998.
Pages
232
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780312216115