Disability Theatre And Education

Author : Andy Kempe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415675031

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What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been represented on stage in the past, this book discusses what may be inferred from plays which feature disabled characters through a variety of critical approaches. In addition to the theoretical analysis of disability in dramatic literature, the book includes two previously unpublished playscripts, both of which have been performed by secondary school aged students and which focus on issues of disability and its effects on others. The contextual notes and discussion which accompany these plays and projects provide insights into how drama can contribute to disability education, and how it can give a voice to students who have special educational needs themselves. Other features of this wide-ranging text include: an annotated chronology that traces the history of plays that have featured disabled characters an analysis of how disability is used as a dramatic metaphor consideration of the ethics of dramatising a disabled character critical accounts of units of work in mainstream school seeking to raise disability awareness through engagement with practical drama and dramatic texts a description and evaluation of a drama project in a special school. In tackling questions and issues that have not, hitherto, been well covered, Drama, Disability and Education will be of enormous interest to drama students, teachers, researchers and pedagogues who work with disabled people or are concerned with raising awareness and understanding of disability.

Author : Richard Tomlinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0285649620

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Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773586703

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Stage Turns by Kirsty Johnston Pdf

Over the past three decades, disability theatre artists have claimed greater space on Canadian and world stages. While disabled figures and themes are theatre mainstays, productions tend to employ disability figuratively rather than engage with actual disability experience. In reaction, disability theatre pursues an activist perspective that dismantles stereotypes, challenges stigma, and re-imagines disability as a valued human condition. Stage Turns documents the development and innovations of disability theatre in Canada, the aesthetic choices and challenges of the movement, and the multiple spatial scales at which disability theatre operates, from the local to the increasingly global. Kirsty Johnston provides histories of Canada's leading disability theatre companies, emphasizing the early importance of local efforts in the absence of national coordination. Close readings of individual productions demonstrate how aesthetic choices matter and can be a source of solidarity or debate between different companies and artists. This comparative approach allows for a nuanced consideration of disability theatre's breadth and internal differences. Stage Turns highlights the diversity of disability theatre, underlining how this is critical to understanding the challenge it poses to mainstream aesthetics and to fulfilling its own artistic goals.

Author : Matt Hargrave
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137504395

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Theatres of Learning Disability by Matt Hargrave Pdf

Winner of the TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize 2016 This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy. Hargrave provocatively realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have earned the right to full critical review.

Author : Stephanie Barton Farcas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351973281

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Disability and Theatre by Stephanie Barton Farcas Pdf

Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts is a step-by step manual on how to create inclusive theatre, including how and where to find actors, how to publicize productions, run rehearsals, act intricate scenes like fights and battles, work with unions, contracts, and agents, and deal with technical issues. This practical information was born from the author’s 16 years of running the first inclusive theatre company in New York City, and is applicable to any performance level: children’s theatre, community theatre, regional theatre, touring companies, Broadway, and academic theatre. This book features anecdotal case studies that emphasize problem solving, real-world application, and realistic action plans. A comprehensive Companion Website provides additional guidelines and hands-on worksheets.

Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472510358

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Disability Theatre and Modern Drama by Kirsty Johnston Pdf

Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways.

Author : Ian McCurrach,Barbara Darnley
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1853025615

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Special Talents, Special Needs by Ian McCurrach,Barbara Darnley Pdf

This is a handbook for teachers and facilitators working with people with learning disabilities who are interested in creative expression through drama. Based on their considerable experience working with the Strathcona Theatre Company, Ian McCurrach and Barbara Darnley have created a step-by-step guide to running a drama group.

Author : Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000708486

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On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education by Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks Pdf

This book explores and interrogates access and diversity in applied theatre and drama education. Access is persistently framed as a strategy to share power and to extend equality, but in the context of current and recent power struggles, it is also seen as a discourse that reinforces marginalisation and exclusion. The political bind of access is also a conceptual problem. It is impossible to refuse to engage in strategies to extend access to institutions, representations, buildings, education, discourse, etc. We cannot oppose access or strategies for access without reinforcing marginalisation and exclusion. We can’t not want access for ourselves or for others. However, we are then in danger of remaining immersed in a distribution of power that reinforces and naturalises inequality as difference. For applied theatre and drama education, the act of creating, teaching, and learning is intrinsically connected to choice, along with the agency and capacity to choose. What is less clear, and what still interests us, is how the distribution of power and representation creates the schema for an analysis of access and diversity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Author : Paula Crimmens
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781843102915

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Drama Therapy and Storymaking in Special Education by Paula Crimmens Pdf

Aimed at professionals working with children with special needs, this title covers the spectrum of students attending special need schools, including those with attention deficit disorder, autism and Asperger's syndrome. Crimmens places methods of using therapeutic storymaking, within the context of drama therapy.

Author : Jessica Perich Carleton
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0857004697

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Story Drama in the Special Needs Classroom by Jessica Perich Carleton Pdf

Introducing drama to the learning experience is guaranteed to enrich a child's development, and is an especially effective approach for children with special educational needs, including those with autism spectrum disorders. This practical handbook offers teachers an array of simple and easy-to-implement theatrical techniques that will enhance students' learning and encourage artistic expression. The author demonstrates how dramatic play doesn't have to be restricted to drama lessons and can be applied to a diverse range of school subjects and recreational settings. 'The Little Red Hen', for example, covers themes that are relevant to literacy (rhyming and rhythm), maths (counting seeds), science (discussing farming), and art lessons (designing costumes). Step-by-step lesson plans take teachers through every aspect of running fun and engaging story dramas, including warm ups, movement, songs and props. Handy tips throughout suggest ideas for developing the plays further and ways to adapt them according to the needs of the group. This book will be an essential and comprehensive guide for anyone interested in drama as an educational tool in inclusive or special needs settings.

Author : Sally Bailey,Sally D. Bailey
Publisher : Idyll Arbor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 1882883780

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Barrier-free Theatre by Sally Bailey,Sally D. Bailey Pdf

Barrier-Free Theatre is a nuts-and-bolts, hands-on, comprehensive guide for making drama accessible to children and adults with disabilities. Why drama? Drama can "level the playing field" and empower participants of all ages. Dramatic interaction creates relationships that last long after a performance is over. Written for drama teachers, recreation leaders, special educators, therapists, and other group leaders, this book explains in simple, non-technical language how to make accommodations for successful participation in creative drama, improvisation, puppetry, rehearsals for traditional plays, and development of new plays geared to participants' strengths. Actors will gain self-confidence, improve their communication skills, find new ways to express themselves, and work more effectively and creatively with others. Ways to use drama as a tool to teach traditional classroom subjects, such as science, social studies, and language arts, are highlighted, as well as using it for inst

Author : William E. Rickert,Jane Bloomquist
Publisher : Studies; [1]
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014538030

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Resources in Theatre and Disability by William E. Rickert,Jane Bloomquist Pdf

A comprehensive reference to people, organizations, print, media, and miscellaneous resources pertinent to theater and disability within the United States. All types of theater and drama activities are represented, including professional training, performance, audience development, education, creative dramatics, puppetry and mime. Listings are also included for theater with senior adults and for drama therapy with individuals who have disabilities. Co-published with the Association for Theatre and Disability.

Author : Navin Kikabhai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319759661

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The Rhetoric of Widening Participation in Higher Education and its Impact by Navin Kikabhai Pdf

This book offers a critical investigation of the exclusion of individuals described as having ‘learning difficulties’ from participation in higher education. Using a postmodernist framework, the author explores the insights and experiences of a theatre group attempting to develop an undergraduate degree programme in the performing arts. In doing so, he provides a theoretical map of insights into discourses of power and knowledge, and makes transparent competing and contradictory discursive practices. Suggesting that ‘learning difficulties’ is a constructed and re-constructed discourse serving normative interests, the author demonstrates that despite the rhetoric of widening participation, individuals are intentionally beset by barriers, silenced and excluded from degree level participation. The author calls for a radical re-think of the notion of ‘learning difficulties’, segregated provision, access to employment in theatre, and critically questions the notion of participation in higher education. This pioneering volume will appeal to students and scholars of inclusive education, (critical) disability studies, cultural studies and the sociology of education.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350315969

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Theatre and Disability by Petra Kuppers Pdf

This succinct and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience. Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.

Author : Richard Tomlinson
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama in education
ISBN : UIUC:30112012719214

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Disability, Theatre, and Education by Richard Tomlinson Pdf