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Author Yekanians, Soseh

Title Finding Identity Through Directing
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (125 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- TItle Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Structure of the book -- Methodology -- Practice-led research -- Tacit knowledge -- Autoethnography and reflexivity -- The interviews -- In summary -- References -- 1 Attracted to theatre: setting the scene -- Prologue -- The essence of theatre -- Theatre as a social construct -- The theatre and me -- References -- 2 Seeking identity: searching for self -- Identifying identity -- What's in a home? -- Belonging and displacement
Flirting with the "unhomely" and the "in-between" -- The other -- References -- 3 Affinity with Armenia: a narrative in two parts -- Part I: what went before -- Birth of a nation -- The beginnings of the invaders -- The Armenian Genocide -- The Republic of Armenia today -- My voyage from a dream to reality -- September 2008 -- Part II: the journey back -- September 2014 -- A New Armenia or a new me? -- References -- 4 Dating directing: finding the perfect match -- Deconstructing directing -- Background -- Collaborative research through the Kitchen Sink Collective
Turning points in the research -- Moment one -- Moment two -- To be or not to be -- Homing versus belonging -- The director's journey -- Immersion into the practice of directing -- No Worries and Uncle Jack -- Background -- Stereotype, defamiliarisation and difference -- References -- Conclusion -- Final thoughts -- Appendix -- Interview questions from phase 1 -- Interview questions from phase 2 -- Full list of theatre directors interviewed -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429509094
042950909X