Performing loss : rebuilding community through theater and writing / / Jodi Kanter
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| Autore: |
Kanter Jodi <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Performing loss : rebuilding community through theater and writing / / Jodi Kanter
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater and society |
| Drama - Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Other Books in the Theater in the Americas Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Great Holes of History; 1. Loss, Performance, and Contemporary Culture; 2. Practicing Grief: Devising Scenes of Living and Dying; 3. Practicing Adaptation: Losses and Gains in Staging Blindness; 4. Practicing Community: Representing National Tragedy; 5. Practicing Responsibility: Race, Class, and Specters of Justice; 6. Practicing Compensation: Filling the Great Holes of History; 7. Practicing Joy: Improvisation in a Federal Prison |
| 8. Loss, Performance, and the FutureAppendix A. Devised Performance Assignments; Appendix B. Adaptation of Literature Assignments; Appendix C: Improvisation Exercises; Appendix D. A Pedagogical Note on the Performer's Grief; Notes; References; Index; Author Bio; Series Statement; Back Cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing, author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. Performing Loss provides teachers, students, and others interested in performance with strategies for reading, writing, and performing loss as communities- in the classroom, the theater, and the wider public sphere.From an adaptation of Jose Saramago' s novel Blindness to a reading of Suzan-Lori Parks' s The America Play, from Kanter' |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Performing loss |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-8957-6 |
| 1-4356-6351-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782128603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Theater in the Americas.