Sports Plays
Sports Plays

Author: Eero Laine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1000429059

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Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.

Drama Menu
Drama Menu

Author: Glyn Trefor-Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848422858

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Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.

Gaming the Stage
Gaming the Stage

Author: Gina Bloom

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0472053817

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Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

The English Game
The English Game

Author: Richard Bean

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1849431566

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"I've wasted the whole of my life playing this game. It's claimed my knees and it occupies every spare synapse in my brain. I'm not even sure I like it anymore..." The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability. As they gather on a sunny Sunday to face Bernard and his ethnically diverse and highly talented squad, Will, Thiz, Clive and their team-mates spend the day smoking, drinking tea and discussing love, politics and the correct interpretation of the LBW law... Richard Bean's comedy toured with Headlong Theatre throughout May 2008.

Performance and Professional Wrestling
Performance and Professional Wrestling

Author: Broderick Chow

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1317385071

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Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport. Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections: Audience Circulation Lucha Gender Queerness Bodies Race A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.

Sport: Approaches to the study of sport
Sport: Approaches to the study of sport

Author: Eric Dunning

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780415262934

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A collection of texts providing a useful resource for students in the field of sports studies. Subject headings include approaches to the study of sport, the development and structure of modern sport, sport and power relations, and major issues in contemporary sport.

Sport in Australian Drama
Sport in Australian Drama

Author: Richard Fotheringham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-01-31

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780521401562

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Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.

Western Theatre in Global Contexts
Western Theatre in Global Contexts

Author: Yasmine Marie Jahanmir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0429534000

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Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form. Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in theatre, education and the arts.

Impro for Storytellers
Impro for Storytellers

Author: Keith Johnstone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1135863733

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Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.