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Stanislavski in Practice: Exercises for Students
By Nick O'Brien
Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski’s System. Author Nick O’Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike. This is an exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel, WJEC and AQA to...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-56843-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Movement Training for the Modern Actor
By Mark Evans
This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of movement training over the last one hundred and fifty years, it offers a conceptual framework for the understanding of key...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-88395-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies
Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander
This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...
February 2010 | 978-0-415-56553-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Politics of American Actor Training
Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud
This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning voices about our...
September 2009 | 978-0-415-80121-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues
Edited by Sue Jennings
Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result. In this book Sue Jennings brings...
June 2009 | 978-0-415-42207-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Drama as Therapy Volume 1: Theory, Practice and Research, 2nd Edition
By Phil Jones
This new edition of Drama as Therapy presents a coherent review of the practice and theory of Dramatherapy. With a unique combination of practical guidance, clinical examples and research vignettes this fully revised second edition considers developments in the field over the last decade and...
2007 | 978-0-415-41556-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics
Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman
This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal’s work is the first to look ’beyond Boal’ and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context. A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore...
2005 | 978-0-415-32294-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre: Practical Projects for Secondary Schools
By Martin Lewis, John Rainer
Rainer and Lewis present a series of new, exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom. The tried-and-tested units of work in this book are placed in the context of current ideas about classroom practice. The authors present a new model of how teachers can...
2005 | 978-0-415-31908-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Augusto Boal
By Frances Babbage
The work of Augusto Boal has had a tremendous impact on contemporary theatre. This volume looks at the scope of Boal's career - from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his groundbreaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed...
2004 | 978-0-415-27326-8 | Paperback (Routledge)