Teaching Postdramatic Theatre Anxieties, Aporias and Disclosures /

• Main Author: D'Cruz, Glenn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Art education.; Contemporary Theatre.; Creativity and Arts Education.

This book explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theatre from a pedagogical perspective. It identifies some of the major anxieties and paradoxes generated by teaching postdramatic theatre through practice, with reference to the aesthetic, cultural and institutional pressures that shape...

Table of Contents:

• Pedagogy, Politics and the Personal
• 1. John Laws/Sade: Postmodern or Postdramatic?
• 2. From Drama to Theatre to Performance Studies
• 3. Ganesh Versus the Third Reich as Pedagogical Parable
• 4. Attempts On Her Life: A Postdramatic Learning Play?
• 5. Teaching History and (Gender) Politics: The Hamletmachine and The Princess Plays
• 6. Devising Postdramatic Theatre in the Academy
• 7. An Enemy of Postdramatic Theatre? Or What I think about when I think about teaching Postdramatic Theatre.