How to teach a play : essential exercises for popular plays / edited by Miriam M. Chirico and Kelly Younger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chirico, Miriam M., editor.

Younger, Kelly, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Study and teaching--Activity programs.

Drama.

Drama--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction - as literature to be read - but never experience the performative nature of theater. How to Teach a Play provides new strategies for teaching dramatic literature and offers practical, play-specific exercises that demonstrate how performance illuminates close reading of the text. This practical guide provides a new generation of teachers and theatre professionals the tools to develop their students' performative imagination. Featuring more than 80 exercises, How to Teach a Play provides teaching strategies for the most commonly taught plays, ranging from classical through contemporary drama. Developed by contributors from a range of disciplines, these exercises reveal the variety of practitioners that make up the theatrical arts; they are written by playwrights, theater directors, and artistic directors, as well as by dramaturgs and drama scholars. In bringing together so many different perspectives, this book highlights the distinctive qualities that makes theater such a dynamic genre. This collection offers an array of proven approaches for anyone teaching drama: literature and theater professors; high school teachers; dramaturgs and directors. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, both instructors and directors can immediately apply the activity to the classroom or rehearsal. Whether you specialize in drama or only teach a play every now and again, these exercises will inspire you to modify, transform, and reinvent your own role in the dramatic arts"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

The exercises. Hubris and Hamartia based on Aristotle's Poetics

Agamemnon / Aeschylus

The Eumenides / Aeschylus

Antigone/ Sophocles

Oedipus the King / Sophocles

Medea / Euripides

Lysistrata / Aristophanes

The Twin Menaechmi / Plautus

The Second Shepherd's Play / The Wakefield Master

Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo

Everyman / Anonymous

A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet / William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Othello / William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure / William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of King Lear / William Shakespeare

The Tempest / William Shakespeare

Life is a Dream / Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Tartuffe / Moliere

Restoration Theater audiences

The Country Wife / William Wycherley

The Rover / Aphra Behn

The Way of the World / William Congreve

The School for Scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Woyzeck / Georg Buchner

A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen

Miss Julie / August Strindberg

Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen

The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde

Three Sisters / Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov

Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw

Trifles / Susan Glaspell

Six Characters in Search of an Author / Luigi Pirandello

Juno and the Paycock / Sean O'Casey

Machinal / Sophie Treadwell

The House of Bernarda Alba / Federico Garcia Lorca

Our Town / Thorton Wilder

Mother Courage and Her Children / Bertolt Brecht

Long Day's Journey into Night / Eugene O'Neill

The Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams

Death of a Salesman / Arthur Miller

Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett

The Crucible / Arthur Miller

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Tennessee Williams

Endgame / Samuel Beckett

The Birthday Party / Harold Pinter

Rhinoceros / Eugene Ionesco

A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry

The Zoo Story / Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee

Dutchman / Amiri Baraka

The Homecoming / Harold Pinter

The House of Blue Leaves / John Guare

Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka

Fefu and her Friends / Maria Irene Fornes

And the Soul Shall Dance / Wakako Yamauchi

Zoot Suit / Luis Valdez

True West / Sam Shepard

Top Girls / Caryl Churchill

Cloud Nine / Caryl Churchill

"Master Harold"...and the Boys / Athol Fugard

Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet

Fences / August Wilson

The Other Shore / Gao Xingjian

The Piano Lesson / August Wilson

M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang

Fires in the Mirror / Anna Deavere Smith

Angels in America, Part One / Tony Kushner

Information for Foreigners / Griselda Gambaro

Oleanna / David Mamet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead / Tom Stoppard

Blasted / Sarah Kane

"Art" / Yasmina Reza

How I Learned to Drive / Paula Vogel

Topdog/Underdog / Suzan-Lori Parks

Doubt: a Parable / John Patrick Shanley

Dead Man's Cell Phone / Sarah Ruhl

Water by the Spoonful / Quiara Alegria Hudes

Sweat / Lynn Nottage

Vietgone / Qui Nguyen.

Notes:

"Online resources to accompany this book are available at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-teach-a-play-9781350017528" --Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350017528

1350017523

9781350017535

1350017531

OCLC:

1127063373

Publisher Number:

99983566861