Worlds in words : storytelling in contemporary theatre and playwriting
The collection of essays Worlds in Words. Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre takes up the currently widely debated issue of the revival of various techniques of storytelling in contemporary theatre practice and playwriting. This topic is set in a larger context of the crisis of traditional theatrical and dramatic representation in the 20th century and sets the discussion of new storytelling techniques within the framework of cultural and post-colonial studies, as well as the recent theories ..
eBook, English, 2010
Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010
1 online resource (274 pages)
9781443821797, 1443821799
827209356
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; INTRODUCTION; WISHES, PROMISES AND THREATS; STORYTELLING IN WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S POETIC DRAMA; ENTANGLED WITHIN STORIES; "IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE, IN FRONT OF MY EYES"; CHAPTER TWO; INTRODUCTION; SPREADING SWEETNESS; TELLING LIFE STORIES AS A STRATEGY OF AUTHENTICATION? MERLE KARUSOO'S OUR BIOGRAPHIES AND TODAY WE WON'T PLAY; ROBBIE MCCAULEY'S SALLY'S RAPE- "SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE"- THE EXAMPLE OF "MAKING THEATRE FOR SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AND CHANGE ..." THROUGH PERFORMANCE AND STORYTELLING; CHAPTER THREE; INTRODUCTION. STORYTELLING IN GROTOWSKIAN AND POST-GROTOWSKIAN THEATRECHARACTERISATION IN STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE; PASSING THROUGH THE CHINK IN SNOUT'S WALL; TOWARD A BROKEN TRADITION; CONCLUSIONS; CONTRIBUTORS