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Drama Worlds A Framework for Process Drama

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ISBN-10: 0435086715

ISBN-13: 9780435086718

Edition: 1995

Authors: Cecily O'Neill

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Drama Worlds examines the complex improvised event called process drama and identifies it as an essential part of today's theatre. Cecily O'Neill considers process drama's sources and connections with more familiar kinds of improvisation: the texts it generates, the kinds of roles available, factors such as audience and dramatic time, and the leader's function in the event. She provides examples of several process dramas and identifies key dramatic strategies and characteristics. The explicit associations between theatre form and process drama make this approach accessible and its purposes and possibilities easy to understand, particularly to those working in actor training and theatre.…    
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Book details

List price: $42.15
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 5/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 169
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Neal A. Glasgow's experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New…    

Encounters
Process Drama and Improvisation Designs for Action
Scripts and Texts New Worlds from Old
Discovering Pre-Texts Scenes and Episodes
Defining the Drama World Transformations
Roles and Roleplay Expectations
Time in Process Drama and Theatre Conspiracies
Audience and Participation Devices
Structuring the Dramatic Experience