1st Edition
Putting Process Drama into Action The Dynamics of Practice
Preface 1. Process Drama: Art Form and Pedagogy 2. The Improvised Nature of the Art Form 3. The Structural Framework and Making Shifts in the Drama 4. The Head of the Actor: Working within the Drama 5. The Head of the Director: The Centrality of Sign 6. The Head of the Playwright: Developing the Narrative, Shaping and Linking Dramatic Episodes 7. The Head of the Teacher: Maintaining the Learning 8. The Imperative of Task 9. Monitoring Emotional Range in Drama 10. The Spiral of Creative Exchange 11. Progression and the Importance of Reflection in Process Drama 12. Process Drama and the Complexities of Co-creativity
Biography
Pamela Bowell is an international drama in education consultant, workshop leader and speaker. Formerly Principal Lecturer at Kingston University, London, UK, and Visiting Reader at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK, she continues to teach regularly at BGU.
Brian S. Heap is Senior Lecturer at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is also an international drama in education consultant, workshop leader and speaker.
In this succinct and brilliant book, Pamela Bowell and Brian Heap map the dispositions and intentions necessary to co-create meaningful dramas with young people. Examining process drama from the minds of the actor, director, playwright and teacher, the authors provide a vital compass to successfully navigate the complex and multi-faceted spiral of creative exchange. Rich with examples of practice and written as a collegial dialogue, it complements their previous book, Planning Process Drama, by helping practitioners manage a drama beyond the planning as it unfolds in action. Offering specific and clear examples, this is an essential text to practitioners' and teachers' libraries.
Peter Duffy, Associate Professor and Teaching Fellow at the University of South Carolina, USA
