Experimental Theatre : Creating and Staging Texts,9780881339079

Experimental Theatre : Creating and Staging Texts

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ISBN13: 9780881339079
ISBN10: 0881339075
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Pub. Date: 1996-07-01
Publisher(s): Waveland Pr Inc
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Experimental Group Productions
1(30)
Theatre Modes
4(1)
Theatrical Complement
5(2)
Presentational and Representational Theatre
7(4)
A Sense of the Other
11(1)
What Is Readers Theatre?
11(6)
Experiment
17(1)
What Is Chamber Theatre?
17(5)
Experiment
22(1)
What Are Ethnography and Conversation Analysis?
22(5)
Experiment
27(1)
What Is a Personal Narrative?
27(1)
Experiment
28(1)
Summary
28(2)
Notes
30(1)
2 Readers Theatre: Creating the Script
31(42)
The Single-Text Orchestration
32(3)
Orchestrating
35(16)
Experiment
48(1)
Experiment
49(2)
Experiment
51(1)
The Expanded Program Compiled Script
51(9)
The Collage Compiled Script
60(7)
Experiment
67(1)
Other Readers Theatre Considerations
67(3)
Summary
70(1)
Notes
71(2)
3 Readers Theatre: Staging Your Script
73(26)
Casting
74(1)
Blocking
75(2)
Focus
77(4)
Experiment
81(1)
Action and Movement
81(2)
Setting and Set Pieces
83(4)
Experiment
87(2)
Lighting
89(3)
Costumes
92(2)
Properties
94(1)
Media
94(2)
Evaluating Your Script and Production
96(1)
Summary
97(1)
Notes
98(1)
4 Chamber Theatre: Creating the Script
99(56)
Chamber Theatre and Conventional Theatre
100(1)
Narrative Point of View
101(7)
Experiment
107(1)
Narrator and Time
108(1)
Narrative Style
109(1)
Narrative Roles
110(8)
Experiment
117(1)
The Narrator's Rhetorical Voice and Audience
118(2)
General Techniques for Adapting Prose Fiction Texts
120(8)
Experiment
125(3)
Adapting First-Person Narrator Texts
128(3)
Adapting Third-Person Narrator Texts
131(3)
Miscellaneous Techniques
134(4)
Cutting
138(4)
Experiment
140(2)
Commercial, Non-Academic Chamber Theatre
142(8)
Summary
150(2)
Notes
152(3)
5 Chamber Theatre: Staging Your Adaptation
155(34)
Directing in Chamber Theatre
155(3)
Focus
158(1)
Narrator/Character Relationship
159(2)
Staging Omniscience
161(1)
Creating Conventions
162(3)
Use of Scripts
165(1)
Spectacle Elements: The Visual and Aural Aspects
166(12)
Staging Postmodern Texts
178(4)
Metaphoric and Metonymic Productions
182(3)
Acting in Chamber Theatre
185(2)
Summary
187(1)
Notes
188(1)
6 Creating and Staging Ethnogoraphic Studies and Everyday Conversations
189(30)
Introduction to Ethnography and Conversation Analysis
189(3)
Ethnographic Study: Five Steps
192(15)
Experiment
200(7)
Conversation Analysis
207(8)
Experiment
210(5)
Summary
215(1)
Notes
216(3)
7 Creating and Staging the Personal Narrative
219(30)
Experiment
223(1)
Choosing a Personal Narrative to Share
224(1)
The Genres of Personal Narratives
225(1)
Composing Your Personal Narrative
226(8)
Scripting Your Personal Narrative
234(8)
Casting and Staging Your Personal Narrative
242(3)
Audience Response
245(1)
Summary
246(1)
Notes
246(3)
8 How It Was Done: Sample Scripts
249
CHAMBER THEATRE ADAPTATION, "The Last Rung on the Ladder," from Night Shift
250(7)
Stephen King
Joshua Coomer
PERSONAL NARRATIVE, "One Last Starry Night,"
257(4)
Cassandra Strandin
COMPILATION SCRIPT, "World War II from the Homefront: Those Fabulous 40s,"
261(10)
Donald E. Heady and members of The Third Age Theatre
ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY SCRIPT, "Alcoholics Anonymous,"
271(6)
Ken Dingledine
Laura Jansen
Audrey Snyder
Michelle Hensley
READERS THEATRE COMPILED SCRIPT, "Growing Pains,"
277(20)
Marjorie Duehmig
CHAMBER THEATRE ADAPTATION, "the letting down of the hair,"
297(7)
Anne Sexton
Judy E. Yordon
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS SCRIPT
304(9)
Transcribed by Laura Jansen
Melissa Jones
CHAMBER THEATRE ADAPTATION, "The Open Window,"
313(5)
H. H. Munro (Saki)
Judy E. Yordon
COLLAGE COMPILED SCRIPT, "We the People,"
318(5)
Melissa Van Meter
PERSONAL NARRATIVE, "She Smiled at Me,"
323
Carrie Schlatter

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