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Directors Give Instructions
No full textOn the publication of her book 'The Director’s Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre', Katie Mitchell discusses the inheritance of Stanislavski, working with multi-media, and why painstaking preparation is absolutely essential
Introduction (to 'Theatre as Witness')
No full textThe publication of a trilogy of plays by Yael Farber is very timely. At present, both in the UK and beyond, there seems to be an emerging and ever increasing search for the truth in stories - both in art and politics. In the political arena, since the fabulated stories of 'weapons of mass destruction' that initiated the invasion of Iraq in 2003, never before have our politicians been regraded with such unprecedented and wide-held distrust
The Devil's Tale - Flow Festival
No full textThe highlight of The Flow Festival will be an amazing site specific show called The Devils Tale performed in and around the Basins. In this huge extravaganza full of music, colour and excitement Spiral, a professional Spanish performance company will present an amazing story in which a town comes together to fight an epic battle of wills. With many Stourport people in the show too, this is one not to be missed.
Tranga, with her gang of musicians and clowns, arrive by boat full of energy, rhythm and colour. But hot on her tail is the far more sinister Capitan Vicio and his magnificent Ship of Fools. The stage is set for an epic battle of wills in this huge extravaganza of music, playfulness and water! Be ready for the surprise of your life
The Pedagogy and Performance of Sci:dentities
No full textSociety dictates that people fall into one of two sexual identities: male or female. For some people, though, sex is not so clear-cut. They may have an intersex condition or feel that there is a mismatch between their biological sex and the gender they perceive themselves to be. Catherine McNamara and Alison Rooke describe here a project in which a group of transsexual and transgendered young people were able to explore – and challenge – the biological determinants and medical understanding of sex and gender, and also to express their perceptions through performance. As well as helping the young people to make more sense of their sexed and gendered identities, the project enabled them to communicate a picture of transgendered lived experience that goes beyond limited scientific and medical descriptions
Interview with Yael Farber
No full textAn interview between Amanda Stuart-Fisher and Yael Farber that prefaces the collection of plays
Auteurship and Collaboration: Developments in Facilitated Creativity
No full textA round table discussion of the role of the ‘director’ in collective companies, focussing on the work of Shunt, Complicite, and Robert Lepage
Bearing Witness: The Position of Theatre Makers in the Telling of Trauma
No full textThe Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe.
This book divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation of issues in applied theatre whilst also acknowledging the multi-disciplinary nature of its subject.
It crosses fields such as:
* theatre in educational settings
* prison theatre
* community performance
* theatre in conflict resolution and reconciliation
* interventionist theatre
* theatre for development.
This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change
