Playing in a House of Mirrors : Applied Theatre As Reflective Practice.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
Intro -- Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword: A Prepositional Proposition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice -- 1. "You Can't Make Me!": Working with Scripts of Classroom Resistance in Forum Theatre -- 2. Transforming Reflection through a Forum Theatre Learning Approach in Health Education -- 3. The Use of Interactive Theatre in Digital Technology Research and Awareness Raising -- Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing -- 4A. Exploring The 6-Part-Story Method As Performative Reflection: Reflections on Embodied Storytelling -- 4B. Exploring The 6-Part-Story-Method as Performative Reflection: 'Why Poke the Monster in the Corner?' Reflections on the Experience of Reflecting -- 5. Playing with Reflection in Drama Therapy Education -- Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing -- 6. Playing in Entangled Spaces: Exploring Ethical Know-How through Embodied Inquiry -- 7. Performative Inquiry: Reflection as a Scholarly Pedagogical Act -- 8. Change the Game: Reflective Practice through Forum Theatre -- Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing -- 9. When the Anthropologist Becomes a Character: Critical Reflections on the Perils and Possibilities of Research-Based Theatre -- 10. Action Explorations as Reflective Practice -- 11. Image Theatre as Reflective Practice in Teacher Education -- 12. Drama and Ecological Understanding: Reflections upon Ecology, Performance, Place and Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Chapter Authors Holding up the Mirror to Their Experiences of Writing -- Afterword: Between You, Me and a Puppet -- Biographies.
Play Analysis: A Casebook on Modern Western Drama is a combined play-analysis textbook and course companion that contains twelve essays on major dramas from the modern European and American theaters: among them, Ghosts, The Ghost Sonata, The Doctor's Dilemma, A Man's a Man, The Homecoming, The Hairy Ape, The Front Page, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman. Supplementing these essays are a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, and bibliographies.