The French Play: Exploring Theatre "re-creatively" with Foreign Language StudentsUniversity of Calgary Press, 2006 - 251 sidor The French Play is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of French-language plays as models, author Les Essif leads readers through the process of exploring drama and building a successful play with an eye toward applying re-creative strategies. Essif promotes an array of new strategies for planning, producing, analyzing, and theorizing theatre, covering such essential topics as: exercises to produce a total, corporeal expression of the foreign language; performance semiotics; organization of rehearsal schedules; the collaborative assignment of roles; audience participation; publicity and promotion; taking the play on tour; and the evaluation of student actors. Aimed at university drama students, The French Play is also a must-have for scholars and teachers of performance and dramatic staging, foreign languages, English as a second language, and anyone else who requires a strong theoretical and critical approach to foreign language drama. |
Innehåll
Introduction | 1 |
Advance Preparation | 31 |
1 Day One Youre On | 39 |
2 The First Six Weeks of Performance | 57 |
3 The Collaborative ReCreation | 93 |
4 Cooperatively and Recreatively Rehearsing | 109 |
Cest fini | 133 |
6 PostPerformance Student Evaluation of the | 147 |
7 The AnalyticalSubjunctive Art of Combining | 151 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Appendices | 185 |
Works Cited | 239 |
Notes | 243 |
Back Cover | 253 |
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