Writing for performance / by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones.
Harris, Anne M., author.; Holman Jones, Stacy Linn, 1966- author.
2016
PN1661 .H37 2016eb
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Title Writing for performance / by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones.
Author Harris, Anne M., author.
ISBN 9789463005944 (electronic book)
9463005943 (electronic book)
9789463005920
9463005927
9789463005937
Published Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 172 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PN1661 .H37 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 370
Summary The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Harris and Holman Jones offer readers a practical and concise guide to writing a variety of dynamic texts for performance ranging from playscripts to ensemble and multimedia/hybrid works. Writing for Performance is structured around the ‘tools’ of performance writing—words, bodies, spaces, and things. These tools serve as pivots for understanding how writing for performance must be conducted in relation to other people, places, objects, histories, and practices. This book can be used as a primary text in undergraduate and graduate classes in playwriting, theatre, performance studies, and creative writing. It can also be read by ethnographic, arts-based, collaborative and community performance makers who wish to learn the how-to of writing for performance. Teachers and facilitators can use each chapter to take their students through the conceptualizing, writing, and performing/creating process, supported by exemplars and writing exercises and/or prompts so readers can try the form themselves. “What a welcome, insightful and much-needed book. Harris and Holman Jones bring us to an integrated notion of writing that is embodied, felt, breathed and flung from stage to page and back again. Writing for Performance will become a crucial text for the creation of the performance and theater that the 21st Century will need.” – Tim Miller, artist and author of Body Blows: Six Performances and 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays and Travels “No prescriptions here. In the hands of this creative duo we find a deep and abiding respect for the many creative processes that might fuel writing and performance that matters. From the deep wells of their own experiences, Harris and Holman Jones offer exercises that are not meant to mold the would-be writer, but spur them on to recognize their latent writing/performative selves.” – Kathleen Gallagher, Distinguished Professor of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, University of Toronto Anne Harris, PhD, is a senior lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne), and researches in the areas of arts, creativity, performance, and diversity. Stacy Holman Jones, PhD, is Professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University (Melbourne) specializing in performance studies, gender and critical theory and critical qualitative methods.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Holman Jones, Stacy Linn, 1966- author.
Series Teaching writing (Sense Publishers) ; v. 5.
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PRAISE FOR WRTING FOR PERFORMANCE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EXEMPLARS; WRITING EXERCISES; CHAPTER 1: BEGINNINGS; WHAT IS WRITING FOR PERFORMANCE?; THE WORK OF THE (WESTERN) WORD; Aristotelian Dramatic Structure; The 'Well-Made Play' (19th Century-Modern Times); Modern Playwriting (20th Century); Feminist/Non-Naturalistic/Ensemble Theatre (1960s-Present); Live Art, Happenings, and Solo Performance (1960s-Present); ASKING AESTHETIC, CRITICAL, AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS; WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?; ABOUT THIS BOOK AND ITS STRUCTURE; Chapter 2: Words; Chapter 3: Bodies; Chapter 4: Things

Chapter 5: SpacesChapter 6: Rehearsing/Devising; Chapter 7: Revising/Performing; Chapter 8: Beginnings, Again; CHAPTER 2: WORDS; BOOKS AND MAPS; THE VOICE OF A PERFORMANCE TEXT; WORDS AND BODIES; WORDS AND ACTIONS; EXEMPLAR ONE: A DYKE IS NOT A DAM; WRITING EXERCISE ONE: CREATING CHARACTER FROM MUSIC; EXEMPLAR TWO: LEAVE TO STAY; WRITING EXERCISE TWO: CREATING CHARACTER FROM A NEWS ITEM; WORDS AND…; CHAPTER 3: BODIES; BODIES CARRY (THE PERFORMANCE) WORD; (WRITING FOR) SPEAKING AND MOVING; WRITING EXERCISE ONE: LAUNDRY BASKET; (WRITING FOR) SILENT BODIES/EMBODIMENTS

WRITING EXERCISE TWO: SILENT SHOUT(WRITING FOR) VIRTUAL EMBODIMENTS; WRITING EXERCISE THREE: IMPROVISING MARRIAGE; EXEMPLAR ONE: LOST BODIES; WRITING EXERCISE FOUR: MAKING PEOPLE WITH WORDS; EXEMPLAR TWO: SMELLY BODIES; WRITING EXERCISE FIVE: SMELL IT LIKE IT IS; EXEMPLAR THREE: 365 DAYS/365 PLAYS BY SUZAN-LORI PARKS; WRITING EXERCISE SIX: A PLAY A DAY; BODIES AND…; CHAPTER 4: THINGS; MAKING THINGS MEAN; MAKING THINGS MEAN DIFFERENTLY; GLUING THINGS TOGETHER: COLLAGE TECHNIQUES; EXEMPLAR ONE: TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA BY AMY KILGARD; The Tragedy of Desire; The Tragedy of the Partial

The Tragedy of DesireWRITING EXERCISE ONE: CUT-UP AND FOLD-IN METHODS (AFTER WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS); EXEMPLAR TWO: FOUR WORDS; WRITING EXERCISE TWO: GRAPHIC COLLAGE; EXEMPLAR THREE: LOST AND FOUND; WRITING EXERCISE THREE: NOT-SO-CHANCE COLLAGE; EXEMPLAR FOUR: AT THE SEAMS; WRITING EXERCISE FOUR: CENTO; THINGS AND…; NOTE; CHAPTER 5: SPACES; WRITING SPACES; PERFORMANCE SPACES; TEXTS AS SPACES; EXEMPLAR ONE: TIM MILLER'S BODY MAPS; WRITING EXERCISE ONE: BODY MAPPING; EXEMPLAR TWO: AFFIRMING SELVES IN POETRY; WRITING EXERCISE TWO: THE TOWN; SPACES AND…; CHAPTER 6: REHEARSING/DEVISING

RESEARCH INTO PERFORMANCEFORM AND CONTENT; RAW MATERIAL: THE RESEARCH PROJECT; THE ADAPTATION PROCESS; THE WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE; The Stage; Physicalising the Script-The Games; EXCERPTS FROM OUT/IN FRONT; Transcript Excerpt; Scene 1: Really Really Short (Kaz, Queer Female Identified Character); Transcript Excerpt; Scene 1: Really Really Short (Kaz)-CONT; Transcript Excerpt; Scene 3: 100% Present (Mike, Gay Male-Identified Character); Transcript Excerpt; Scene 6: I Didn't Say Anything (Pam, Pansexual Female-Identified Character); Transcript Excerpt

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