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Author D'Cruz, Glenn, author.

Title Teaching postdramatic theatre : anxieties, aporias and disclosures / Glenn D'Cruz
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (XI, 205 pages) : 10 illustrations
Contents Pedagogy, Politics and the Personal -- 1. John Laws/Sade: Postmodern or Postdramatic? -- 2. From Drama to Theatre to Performance Studies -- 3. Ganesh Versus the Third Reich as Pedagogical Parable -- 4. Attempts On Her Life: A Postdramatic Learning Play? -- 5. Teaching History and (Gender) Politics: The Hamletmachine and The Princess Plays -- 6. Devising Postdramatic Theatre in the Academy -- 7. An Enemy of Postdramatic Theatre? Or What I think about when I think about teaching Postdramatic Theatre
Summary This book explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theatre from a pedagogical perspective. It identifies some of the major anxieties and paradoxes generated by teaching postdramatic theatre through practice, with reference to the aesthetic, cultural and institutional pressures that shape teaching practices. It also presents a series of case studies that identify the pedagogical fault lines that expose the power-relations inherent in teaching (with a focus on the higher education sector as opposed to actor training institutions). It uses auto-ethnography, performance analysis and critical theory to assist university teachers involved in directing theatre productions to deepen their understanding of the concept of postdramatic theatre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Theater -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Theater -- Vocabulary
Experimental theater -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Experimental theater
Theater -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319716855
3319716859
3319716840
9783319716848
Other Titles Teaching postdramatic theater