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African Theatre for Development

Author : Kamal Salhi

Publisher : Intellect Books

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 18,21 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Art

ISBN :

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This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow them to be read either as aids to formal study or as elements of discussion to interest the general reader.



Theatre and Empowerment

Author : Richard Boon

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 34,53 MB

Release : 2004-08-19

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1139453513

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Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multi-cultural perspective. The communities involved include poverty-stricken children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, victims of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. The book asserts the value of performance as a vital agent of necessary social change, and makes its arguments through the close examination, from 'inside' practice, of the success - not always complete - of specific projects in their practical and cultural contexts. Practitioners and commentators ask how performance in its widest sense can play a part in community activism on a scale larger than the individual, 'one-off' project by helping communities find their own liberating and creative voices.



Theatre, Performance and Technology

Author : Christopher Baugh

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 43,90 MB

Release : 2014-01-07

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1350316156

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Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice. Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.



Brecht on Theatre

Author : Bertolt Brecht

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 13,19 MB

Release : 1964

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0809005425

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Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.



Anthropology, Theatre, and Development

Author : Alex Flynn

Publisher : Springer

Page : 375 pages

File Size : 47,57 MB

Release : 2015-04-21

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1137350601

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The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives.



Theatre for Development

Author : C. P. Epskamp

Publisher : Zed Books

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 38,76 MB

Release : 2006-10

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9781842777336

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The Theatre for Development (TFD) is a learning strategy in which theatre is used to encourage communities to express their own concerns and think about the causes of their problems and possible solutions. This overview contributes to both the theory and practice of Theatre for Development. The author contextualises it historically within the evolving range of development theories, strategies and practices, notably including the now widely accepted notion of participatory approaches to achieving social change.



Theatre in Search of Social Change

Author : C. P. Epskamp

Publisher :

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 22,3 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Developing countries

ISBN :

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This book investigates the educative role of theater in processes of social change and development, and considers how to evaluate the use of theater as a small-scale medium in realizing development projects based on a participatory or interventionist model. The book is in three major parts. Following an introduction and an introductory chapter, the first part (The Historical Antecedents of 'Theater for Development) is concerned with the formation of theories which form the basis of the book's approach. Part 2 (From Traditional to Popular Theater: Historical Case Studies from Asia, Latin America and Africa) consists of a description of the historical development of theater as an educative medium in development processes in the Third World. Part 3 (Theater for Development: Performing Arts as Instruments of Intervention) presents a number of descriptions of theater used in clearly defined development projects. The book's 12 chapters are as follows: (1) Introduction; (2) Development and Change: People's Participation in Adult Education; (3) Popular Theater from a Social Scientific Point of View; (4) Popular Theater from an Educative Point of View; (5) Popular Theater from a Theater Historical Point of View; (6) Traditional Media for Publicity and Information Campaigns: Wayang Theater on Java and Bali; (7) Adult Education and 'Teatro Campesino' in Latin America: Mexico as an Example; (8) African Universities Hit the Road: From Travelling Theater to Theater for Development; (9) Theatrical Forms: Puppeteers and Crooners Participating in Mass Campaigns; (10) Learning Approaches: Shifting from Sector Policy in National Campaigns to Target Group Policy in Local Development Projects; (11) Target Groups: NGOs and the Marginalized Rural and Urban Poor; and (12) Conclusions. Thirteen pages of notes and a 23-page bibliography are attached. (SR)



Theatre of the Oppressed

Author : Augusto Boal

Publisher : Get Political

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 13,80 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Social classes in literature

ISBN : 9780745328386

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''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton



Other Theatres

Author : Andrew Davies

Publisher :

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 13,36 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Culture

ISBN : 9780333324356

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Applied Theatre: Development

Author : Tim Prentki

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 42,58 MB

Release : 2015-02-26

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1472508289

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At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered this sub-discipline and to experienced practitioners and academics. Part 1 is divided into two chapters. The first introduces the sub-discipline of Theatre for Development, covering its origins, principles and history, and providing an overview of theatre for development in Western contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Latin America. The second focuses upon theoretical and philosophical issues confronting the discipline and its relationship to contemporary politics, as well as considering its future role. Part 2 consists of seven chapters contributed by leading figures and current practitioners from around the world and covering a diverse range of themes, methodologies and aesthetic approaches. One chapter offers a series of case studies concerned with sexual health education and HIV prevention, drawn from practitioners working in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, and China. Other chapters include studies of intercultural theatre in the Peruvian Amazon; a programme of applied theatre conducted in schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, following the 2010 earthquake; an attempt to reinvigorate a community theatre group in South Brazil; and an exchange between a Guatemalan arts collective and a Dutch youth theatre company, besides others.