Nicholson, Helen, 1958-
Theatre, education and performance the map and the story / [[Book] :] Helen Nicholson. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Mapping Stories -- PART I: Looking Back: Histories and Landscapes -- Spaces to Imagine: Theatre and Social Reform -- Spaces to Play: Childhood, Theatre and Educational Utopias -- Places to Learn: Activity and Activism -- PART II: Moving On: Theatre Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Traces and Places -- Globalisation and Regeneration: Re-branding Creativity -- Dramatising Home: Places of Safety and Risk -- 'This Island's Mine': National Identity and Questions of Belonging -- International Spaces: Global Citizenship and Cultural Exchange -- Changing Worlds: Performing Science, Theatre and Public Engagement -- Cool Spaces: Learning in Theatre and Beyond Theatres. -- Bibliography.
"Theater education has often provided theatre-makers with radical new ways to encourage social participation and aesthetic engagement. This timely new book raises questions about how twentieth century practices have been revised in the twenty-first century, and how theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage young people in contemporary issues" --
All age.
9780230574229 (hbk.) 9780230574236 (pbk.)
2011008067
Theater and society.
Drama in education.
Theater and society--Great Britain.
Drama in education--Great Britain.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
792
792 / N T
Theatre, education and performance the map and the story / [[Book] :] Helen Nicholson. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Mapping Stories -- PART I: Looking Back: Histories and Landscapes -- Spaces to Imagine: Theatre and Social Reform -- Spaces to Play: Childhood, Theatre and Educational Utopias -- Places to Learn: Activity and Activism -- PART II: Moving On: Theatre Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Traces and Places -- Globalisation and Regeneration: Re-branding Creativity -- Dramatising Home: Places of Safety and Risk -- 'This Island's Mine': National Identity and Questions of Belonging -- International Spaces: Global Citizenship and Cultural Exchange -- Changing Worlds: Performing Science, Theatre and Public Engagement -- Cool Spaces: Learning in Theatre and Beyond Theatres. -- Bibliography.
"Theater education has often provided theatre-makers with radical new ways to encourage social participation and aesthetic engagement. This timely new book raises questions about how twentieth century practices have been revised in the twenty-first century, and how theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage young people in contemporary issues" --
All age.
9780230574229 (hbk.) 9780230574236 (pbk.)
2011008067
Theater and society.
Drama in education.
Theater and society--Great Britain.
Drama in education--Great Britain.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
792
792 / N T