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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300025203321

Autore

D'Cruz Glenn

Titolo

Teaching Postdramatic Theatre : Anxieties, Aporias and Disclosures / / by Glenn D'Cruz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319716855

3319716859

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

792.02807

Soggetti

Theater - History

Art - Study and teaching

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Creativity and Arts Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.