Author: Eero Laine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000429059
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
Sports Plays
Author: Eero Laine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000429059
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000429059
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.
Sporting Performances
Author: Shannon L. Walsh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429560184
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance. Through a series of intriguing case studies that blur the lines between the realms of politics, sports, physical culture, and performance, this book assumes that sporting performances, much like theatre, serve as barometers, mirrors, and refractors of the culture in which they are enmeshed. Some of the topics include nineteenth-century variety show pugilists, athletes on Broadway, sumo wrestlers, rhythmic gymnasts, and Strava enthusiasts. While analyzing sport through the lens of theatre and performance, this anthology reflects on how physical culture and sports contribute to identity formation and the effects of nuanced imprints of physical activity on the mind, soul, and tongue. Written primarily for those interested in physical fitness, sports, dance, and physical theatre, this interdisciplinary volume is a crucial tool for Performance and Theatre Studies students and those in the fields of Sports Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies more broadly.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429560184
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance. Through a series of intriguing case studies that blur the lines between the realms of politics, sports, physical culture, and performance, this book assumes that sporting performances, much like theatre, serve as barometers, mirrors, and refractors of the culture in which they are enmeshed. Some of the topics include nineteenth-century variety show pugilists, athletes on Broadway, sumo wrestlers, rhythmic gymnasts, and Strava enthusiasts. While analyzing sport through the lens of theatre and performance, this anthology reflects on how physical culture and sports contribute to identity formation and the effects of nuanced imprints of physical activity on the mind, soul, and tongue. Written primarily for those interested in physical fitness, sports, dance, and physical theatre, this interdisciplinary volume is a crucial tool for Performance and Theatre Studies students and those in the fields of Sports Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies more broadly.
Gaming the Stage
Author: Gina Bloom
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053817
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053817
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
Read and Write Sports
Author: Anastasia Suen
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1598846310
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What does it take to engage students and get them learning? Active participationùwhere kids are focused on a task within a social settingùis the first step. Readers theatre scripts are a perfect way to accomplish this. Secondly, add a component of genuine interest by incorporating popular sports and activities into the activity. --
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1598846310
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What does it take to engage students and get them learning? Active participationùwhere kids are focused on a task within a social settingùis the first step. Readers theatre scripts are a perfect way to accomplish this. Secondly, add a component of genuine interest by incorporating popular sports and activities into the activity. --
The English Game
Author: Richard Bean
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849431566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore..." The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law... Richard Bean's comedy toured with Headlong Theatre throughout May 2008.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849431566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore..." The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law... Richard Bean's comedy toured with Headlong Theatre throughout May 2008.
Between Theater and Anthropology
Author: Richard Schechner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200926
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world. Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropologists in particular have neglected close analogies between performance behavior and ritual. The way performances are created—in training, workshops, and rehearsals—is the key paradigm for social process.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200926
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world. Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropologists in particular have neglected close analogies between performance behavior and ritual. The way performances are created—in training, workshops, and rehearsals—is the key paradigm for social process.
Drama Menu
Author: Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Brecht on Theatre
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809005425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809005425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.
A Wicked Christmas Carol
Author: Bobby Keniston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623849184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781623849184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Impro for Storytellers
Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135863733
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135863733
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.