Theatre, education and performance
By: Helen Nicholson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230574236
Subjects: Theater and society; Drama in education; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
Description: "Theater education has often provided theatre-makers with radical new ways to encourage social participation and aesthetic engagement. This timely new book raises questions about how twentieth century practices have been revised in the twenty-first century, and how theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage young people in contemporary issues"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Mapping Stories; title: PART I: Looking Back: Histories and Landscapes; title: Spaces to Imagine: Theatre and Social Reform; title: Spaces to Play: Childhood, Theatre and Educational Utopias; title: Places to Learn: Activity and Activism; title: PART II: Moving On: Theatre Education in the Twenty-first Century; title: Traces and Places; title: Globalisation and Regeneration: Re-branding Creativity; title: Dramatising Home: Places of Safety and Risk; title: 'This Island's Mine': National Identity and Questions of Belonging; title: International Spaces: Global Citizenship and Cultural Exchange; title: Changing Worlds: Performing Science, Theatre and Public Engagement; title: Cool Spaces: Learning in Theatre and Beyond Theatres.; title: Bibliography.