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- The book offers a practical and concise guide to writing a variety of texts for performance raging from play scripts to ensemble and multimedia/hybrid works
- The book takes readers through the conceptualising, writing, rehearsing/devising, and performance/revising process and offers readers a variety of exemplars and writing exercises/prompts so that they can try forms and processes for themselves
- The book can be used as a primary text in undergraduate and graduate courses in playwriting, theatre, performance studies, and creative writing as well as auto/ethnographers, arts-based researchers and collaborative performance makers who wish to learn the how-to of writing for performance
Part of the book series: Teaching Writing (WRIT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
“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 latentwriting/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."
Authors and Affiliations
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Monash University, Australia
Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing for Performance
Authors: Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones
Series Title: Teaching Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-594-4
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-594-4Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 172
Topics: Education, general