Acting in person and in style in Australia
Crawford, Jerry L.2011
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An Australian adaption of a textbook from the US which addresses syllabuses nationally. Incorporates Australian playwrights, plays and productions and includes Australian theatre from 1789 to the present day.
Main title:
Acting in person and in style in Australia / by Jerry L. Crawford... [et al.]
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Imprint:
South Melbourne Vic. Nelson Cengage 2011
Collation:
342 p. illustrations
Audience:
Secondary
Contents:
Centering: finding a state of heightened awareness -- Sensing: becoming more aware of the senses -- Focusing -- Freeing: releasing tension -- Speaking: using language clearly and intelligently -- Feeling and doing -- Synthesising skills: preparing a performance -- Playbuilding: devising and structuring original ideas into performance -- Greek, Roman and Medieval drama -- Commedia Dell'Arte -- Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre -- Seventeenth-century French neoclassicism -- Restoration comedy -- Realism and naturalism -- Early twentieth-century theatre: symbolism to dada -- Brecht: epic style and didacticism -- Theatre of the absurd -- Eclectic: mixing the styles -- Early Australian drama --Heroes, heroines and harlequins (1851-1914) -- The city or the bush: 1915-1950 -- Initiative and innvoation: 1951-2002
ISBN:
9780170214919 (pbk)
Dewey class:
792.028
Language:
English
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BRN:
74233
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