INTERACTIVE AND IMPROVISATIONAL DRAMA: VARIETIES OF APPLIED THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE - Softcover

Blatner, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595417507 ISBN 13: 9780595417506

Verlag: iUniverse, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Are you a drama student looking for other ways to practice in your field? Do you teach drama students, or, as a teacher, want to enliven your lessons? Are you an actor who wants to diversify your role repertoire? Are you a therapist who uses active approaches to promote your clients' creative potentials? Are you wanting to be involved in a meaningful form of social action? This is the book for you!Thirty-two innovators share their approaches to interactive and improvisational drama, applied theatre, and performance, for education, therapy, recreation, community-building, and personal empowerment. You are holding the only book that covers the full range of dynamic methods that expand the theatre arts into new settings where many more people can participate in and enjoy the process of non-scripted drama.Drama is a great field! There are many ways to enjoy this activity other than by having to memorize scripts and preparing a performance for an audience. There are ways that are more playful, and types of drama in which the audience become co-actors. This present book is unique in offering ways for participants to become more spontaneous and involved.

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Reseña del editor

Are you a drama student looking for other ways to practice in your field? Perhaps you teach drama students or as a teacher want to enliven your lessons. Are you an actor who wants to diversify your role repertoire? Are you a therapist who uses active approaches to promote your clients' creative potentials? Maybe you want to be involved in a meaningful form of social action? This is the book for you!

Thirty-two innovators share their approaches to interactive and improvisational drama, applied theatre, and performance, for education, therapy, recreation, community-building, and personal empowerment.You are holding the only book that covers the full range of dynamic methods that expand the theatre arts into new settings. There are approaches that don't require memorizing scripts or mounting expensive productions. Dramatic engagement should be recognized as addressing a far broader purpose. There are ways that are playful, and types of non-scripted drama in which the audience become co-actors. This present book is unique in offering ways for participants to become more spontaneous and involved.

Biografía del autor

Adam Blatner, a retired clinical and academic psychiatrist, isauthor of three widely-used books about psychodramaticmethods? Acting-In, Foundations of Psychodrama, and The Artof Play (co-authored with his wife, Allee Blatner). Living inGeorgetown, Texas, he continues to promote ways to help adultsreclaim imagination and spontaneity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0595417507
• ISBN 13: 9780595417506
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 410
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