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Title Worlds in words : storytelling in contemporary theatre and playwriting / edited by Mateusz Borowski and Małgorzata Sugiera
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; INTRODUCTION; WISHES, PROMISES AND THREATS; STORYTELLING IN WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S POETIC DRAMA; ENTANGLED WITHIN STORIES; "IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE, IN FRONT OF MY EYES"; CHAPTER TWO; INTRODUCTION; SPREADING SWEETNESS; TELLING LIFE STORIES AS A STRATEGY OF AUTHENTICATION? MERLE KARUSOO'S OUR BIOGRAPHIES AND TODAY WE WON'T PLAY; ROBBIE MCCAULEY'S SALLY'S RAPE- "SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE"- THE EXAMPLE OF "MAKING THEATRE FOR SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AND CHANGE ..." THROUGH PERFORMANCE AND STORYTELLING; CHAPTER THREE; INTRODUCTION
STORYTELLING IN GROTOWSKIAN AND POST-GROTOWSKIAN THEATRECHARACTERISATION IN STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE; PASSING THROUGH THE CHINK IN SNOUT'S WALL; TOWARD A BROKEN TRADITION; CONCLUSIONS; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary The collection of essays Worlds in Words. Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre takes up the currently widely debated issue of the revival of various techniques of storytelling in contemporary theatre practice and playwriting. This topic is set in a larger context of the crisis of traditional theatrical and dramatic representation in the 20th century and sets the discussion of new storytelling techniques within the framework of cultural and post-colonial studies, as well as the recent theories ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Performing arts.
Storytelling.
performing arts (discipline)
Theatre studies.
Performance art.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Storytelling.
Performing arts
Storytelling
Form Electronic book
Author Borowski, Mateusz
Sugiera, Małgorzata
ISBN 9781443821797
1443821799