Set the stage! [[electronic resource] ] : teaching Italian through theater / / edited by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Colleen Ryan-Scheutz

• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 458.071
• Soggetto topico: Italian language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Drama in education
• Altri autori: Marini-MaioNicoletta <1961-> Ryan-ScheutzColleen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contributors -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Theater Performance with American Students -- CHAPTER 1. Authors, Texts, and Innovat ive Movements: An Overview of the Italian Theatrical Canon -- CHAPTER 2. Acting Italian: From the Piazza to the Stage -- CHAPTER 3. The Theatrical Workshop in the Italian Curriculum -- CHAPTER 4. Creative Connections: The Theater Practicum and the Integration of Language and Literature Study -- CHAPTER 5 Theater Texts and Techniques in the High School Classroom -- CHAPTER 6. Epic Theater, Comic Mode: Understanding Italian Society through the Works of Dario Fo and Franca Rame -- CHAPTER 7. Commedia dell'Arte's Techniques: Theater Research and Italian Language Interplay -- CHAPTER 8. Opera as Theme, Opera as Theater: A Content-Based Approach to the Teaching of Italian Language and Culture -- CHAPTER 9. Full -Scale Play Production: Filling the "Empty Space" between Language and Literature with Fo and Pirandello -- CHAPTER 10. Community, Culture, and Body Language: Staging the Female Voice in the Italian Drama Workshop -- CHAPTER 11. Proficiency and Performance: Assessing Learner Progress in the Italian Theater Workshop -- Text Selection: A Few Criteria -- Financial Resources, Publicity, and Community -- The Italian Drama Workshop in Three Acts -- Training the Body, Coaching the Mind: Preliminary Acting Exercises -- Monologue/Monodrama Projects -- English Translations and Surtitles for the Public Performance: Rationale and Practicalities -- "It's Showtime!" A Concise Guide to Italian Theater Production for New Directors -- Appendix A: Sample Course Syllabus -- Appendix B: Documents to Distribute at Auditions -- Appendix C: Sample French Scene Breakdown -- Afterword: An Interview with Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Thoughts on Theater, Engagement, and the Comic. Examples for a New Pedagogy -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater tradition into the curriculum. Features of the book include• the "Director's Handbook," a comprehensive guide with detailed instructions for every step of the process, from choosing a text to the final performance,• an exclusive interview with Nobel laureate Dario Fo,• a foreword by prize-winning author Dacia Maraini.
• Titolo autorizzato: Set the stage
• ISBN: 1-282-35231-8; 9786612352317; 0-300-15275-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780428903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II