Yasmine Marie Jahanmir, Jillian Campana

Western Theatre in Global Contexts (eBook, PDF)

Directing and Teaching Culturally Inclusive Drama Around the World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429520532
• Artikelnr.: 59853151

Autorenporträt

Jillian Campana is a Professor and Director of the Theatre program at the American University in Cairo, in Egypt. She has taught and devised new work across the United States, Europe and Asia and worked with Augusto Boal in both Brazil and the US. Campana has developed drama programs around the world including ones for military veterans, a Swedish brain injury rehabilitation center, and a shelter for victims of human trafficking in India.

Yasmine Marie Jahanmir is Assistant Professor in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has recently taught and directed at the American University of Kuwait. Her research interests include nationalism in performance, gendered sport, Middle Eastern theatre, and performance pedagogy.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Global Flows: Western Theatre in International Contexts
1. An Introduction to Western Theatre in Global Contexts
Jillian Campana and Yasmine Jahanmir
2. Similarities and Differences in Teaching Western Based Theatre in China
and the Arab World
Marvin Carlson
Section 2: International Stages: Western Theatre in Performance
3. Lysistrata in Cairo: maintaining values while extending the limit
Jillian Campana
4. Laxmi Bai got Drunk at Malini's Dinner and Venturewell became an
Underwear Baron: JUDE productions of Western classics in Kolkata, India
Arnab Banerji
5. West Side Stories: the racial politics and aesthetic considerations of
staging Hell's Kitchen globally
Yasmine Jahanmir
6. Across a Cloudy Room: the cultural appropriation of American musicals by
Chinese students at the expense of their own national identity; a case
study
Jim Mirrione and Wei Song
7. How to Swim in the Desert: on developing a theatre department in Oman
Mark Tardi
Section 3: Pedagogy Abroad: Western Theatre in Education
8. The Viewpoints as Transcultural Pedagogy
Adam Christopher Marple
9. The ISTA Performing Arts Academies in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Anne Drouet and Jillian Campana
10. Reaching the Audience
Fenella Kelly
11. Collaborative Creations: teaching devised performance in Santiago,
Chile
Anne García-Romero
Section 4: Intercultural Exchanges: Theory and Practice
12. The Ethical Demand of Experiencing Imaginative Literature in Teaching
Sophocles' Antigone to Students of Applied English
Selma Helal
13. Post/Colonial Theatre in Madagascar: hybridity and controversy in
Jean-Luc Raharimanana's Le Prophète et le Président
Haddy Kreie
14. Towards "Relevance" and Collective Action in a South African School's
Touring production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: discovering the
operations of Imperial Rome, Cleopatra's power and the meaning of a
crocodile
Sarah Roberts and Néka Da Costa
15. Intersections and Encounters: the meshwork of an international
Australian/Jordanian puppet theatre collaboration
Lynne Kent
16. Conclusion: provocations for educators and practitioners
Jillian Campana and Yasmine Jahanmir