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Theatre Praxis

Teaching Drama Through Practice

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Christopher McCullough

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  • Practical exploration of issues surrounding the teaching and study of drama
    Includes a number of exercises for implementation in group workshops
    Stresses the development and relevance of physical performance skills as well as textual analysis

Part of the book series: New Directions in Theatre (NDT)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. General Introduction

    1. General Introduction

      • Christopher McCullough
      Pages 1-9

  3. Empowerment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-13
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    2. Creative Actor (Empowering the Performer)

      • Dorinda Hulton
      Pages 15-37

    3. Performing Identities (Empowering Performers and Spectators)

      • Lesley Wade Soule
      Pages 38-61

    4. Drama in Education: Learning Through Story (Empowering Teachers)

      • Stephen Cockett
      Pages 62-83

  4. Dialogues With Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-88
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    2. An Approach to Play-Reading

      • Peter Thomson
      Pages 89-107

    3. Ancient Greek Theatre and Society: Problems of Study, Reception and Understanding

      • Graham Ley
      Pages 108-127

    4. Adaptation and the Drama Student

      • James MacDonald
      Pages 128-147

  5. Case Studies in Researched Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Timor Mortis Conturbuit Nos: Improvising Tragedy and Epic

      • Anthony Frost
      Pages 151-173

    3. Melodrama and Methodism: An Approach Through Practice

      • Peter Thomson
      Pages 174-192

    4. Teaching the Politics of Theatricality: Case Study, Meyerhold

      • Christopher McCullough
      Pages 193-217

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 218-220
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About this book

This collection of essays is in no way an attempt to instruct people in ways to teach Drama. Nor is it homogeneous in its range of arguments. What is attempted is a lively discourse on a variety of practices that, by recognising their clearly rooted and often diverse ideologies, we may term praxis. The challenge here is that no practice may claim an ideological innocence, appealing to some vague transcendental natural state of existence. One of the problems when we encounter practical work in the context of the university Drama department is its uneasy relationship with the more conventionally accepted disciplines. Often the answer has been in the form of a retreat into subjectivity and mystery; denying the place of practice in the material world. Each of the essays in this volume challenges that perception, but all of them challenge it in very different ways. What they do have in common is a rejection of the idea that learning is a passive activity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Christopher McCullough

About the editor

CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOUGH is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. He previously lectured in Drama in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, and was an Art and Drama teacher in a comprehensive school. His publications include several contributions to edited collections, and his own book Theatre and Europe 1957-1995 was published in 1996. He has worked internationally as a professional director in Europe and the USA on texts ranging from Shakespeare to Gogol.

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