Living drama / Bruce Burton
- Bib ID:
- 1067726
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Burton, Bruce, 1945-
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Description:
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- South Melbourne, Vic. : Pearson Education Australia, 2001
- x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0733923534 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Living drama
- Full contents:
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- Unit 1. Creating a charachter: Introduction; 1. Expressive body language; 2. Expressive voice; 3. Stanislavski's system; 4. Grotowski's system
- Unit 2. The contexts of performance: Introduction; 1. Major theatrical traditions and performance styles; 2. Key elements of drama; 3. Stagecraft; 4. Performance texts
- Unit 3. Improvisation and playbuilding to performance: Introduction; 1. The process of improvisation; 2. Ensemble playbuilding; 3. Solo performance
- Unit 4. World theatre 1900-2000: Introduction; 1. The theatre of reality: Stanislavski's legacy and selective and magical realism; 2. The theatre of dreams: Surrealism, Artaud's theatre of cruelty and absurd theatre; 3. The theatre of reform: Expressionism, Brecht and Boal; 4. Theatre of transformation: Grotowski and Brook; 5. Theatre of Africa and Asia: Old traditions, new forms
- Unit 5. Australian theatre: Introduction; 1. The development of Australian theatre; 2. Contemporary Australian theatre; 3. Working with key Australian texts.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: Melbourne : Longman Cheshire, 1991.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 318-320.
- For secondary school students, years 11 and 12.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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