Engaging performance : theatre as call and response / Jan Cohen-Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society--United States.

Theater and society.

Community theater--United States.

Community theater.

Drama in community development--United States.

Drama in community development.

Drama--Social aspects--United States.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) ; illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "Socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using perfromance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. -- Book jacket

Author Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social "Calls." -- Book jacket

Cohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Dorean Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.-- Book jacket

Contents:

Introduction; Kinship among engaged performance practices; Purposes of writing this book; Book organization: centers of gravity of engaged performance

Introduction

1. Playwrighting: Putting plays to use

2. Specta(c)ting: Theatre of the oppressed, orthodoxy and adaptation

3. Self-representing: Testimonial performance

4. Cultural organizing: Multiple modes of communication

5. Gathering assets: The art of local resources

6. Particularizing place: Revitalizing cities and neighborhoods

7. Training: An engaged artist prepares

Afterword: The centrality of relationships in engaging performance

APPENDIX

1. Selected adaptations, Cornerstone Theater

2. Roadside Theater's story circle methodology

3. Values and mission statement, Community Arts and Higher Education Partnership

4. Criteria, Syracuse Public Art Commission

5. Resources from The Curriculum Project Research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9780203847695

9780415472135

9780415472142

1-136-94307-2

9786613832320

1-283-51987-9

1-136-94308-0

0-203-84769-5

OCLC:

804661597