{"product_id":"off-book-devised-performance-and-higher-education-9781789387704","title":"Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the theatre world, ‘off book’ signifies a deadline in the creative process: the date by which performers are to have memorised their lines and will no longer be allowed to carry their play script – the ‘book’ – on stage. As such, \u003cem\u003eOff Book\u003c\/em\u003e makes a strangely appropriate title for a book about devised performance in higher education. In its usual context, ‘off book’ captures the tension between ephemeral, live performance and durable, author-ized literature: in one sense, the book – the written play – is the essential core, the seed that gives the performance life and meaning. Yet the opposite could be equally true: an ‘on book’ performance would not really be a play at all, and an actor reciting lines out of a script in hand is not really acting. A play is only realised in, or through, a performance. We cannot really learn, or play, our part until we can put the book down and enter the stage without it.   \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDevised performance might be described as ‘theatre without the book.’ Yet devisors also often \u003cem\u003euse \u003c\/em\u003ebooks – books like this one, practical guidebooks and how-to manuals, as well as a myriad of literature outside the discipline mined for inspiration. This is particularly manifest when devising in the context of higher education - a milieu, like theatre, wherein books traditionally signify authority, status, and meaning. So, to the extent that theatres and campuses are places where one expects everything to be done ‘by the book,’ devising on campuses is rebellious, even sacrilegious. But on the other hand, both the theatre and the university are \u003cem\u003eexpected \u003c\/em\u003eto challenge tradition, defy expectations, and conduct experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book is presented in four sections reflecting the range of roles devising plays in higher education. The first section, \u003cem\u003eDevising Pedagogy: Teaching Transferable Tools\u003c\/em\u003e, examines how and why practitioners, educators, and programs conceptualise and plan for devising with adult learners in a range of higher education contexts. The second, \u003cem\u003eDevising Friction: Ensembles, Individuals, and the Institution,\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the discussion to the classroom, where abstract, pedagogical rubber meets the road of concrete reality. The third, \u003cem\u003eDevising (by) Degrees, Practice-led postgraduate devising project\u003c\/em\u003es features contributions by emerging scholar-practitioners who engage with devising as both an object and method of creative scholarship. Finally, the chapters \u003cem\u003ein Devising Bridges: University-Community Engagement\u003c\/em\u003e explore how devising connects higher education institutions with the public they are intended to serve — particularly in populations and communities that are marginalised within, or even explicitly excluded from participating in, higher education, such as children and people with intellectual disabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA valuable and unique resource for drama educators in universities, university students in education, drama, and arts managements, graduate students conducting research, theatre historians, practicing devised theatre artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Throw away the Book: Devising and Higher Education – \u003cem\u003eHeather Fitzsimmons Frey, Nicola Hyland and James McKinnon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Up Top\/Down Low: Devising and Higher Education in Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada – \u003cem\u003eHeather Fitzsimmons Frey and Nicola Hyland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART 1: DEVISING PEDAGOGY: TEACHING TRANSFERABLE TOOLS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘The Science Behind the Poetry’: Articulating a Pedagogy for Devising in the Tertiary Sector – \u003cem\u003eLynne Bradley and Steph Kehoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Experiential Learning Theory as a Pedagogical Frame for Devising in the \u003cem\u003eD12Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e Project – \u003cem\u003eSarah Peters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Teaching the Cycles REPÈRE: A Conversation with Jacques Lessard – \u003cem\u003eGabrielle Houle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e6.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘But I’m Not a Drama Teacher’: Devising Identity in Teacher Education Programmes – \u003cem\u003eKelsey Jacobson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Teaching Devising for Young Audiences – \u003cem\u003eHeather Fitzsimmons Frey\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Devising in the Twenty-First-Century University: Contexts, Constraints and Creative Messiness – \u003cem\u003eGlenn D’Cruz, Rea Dennis, Yoni Prior, Kate Hunter, Louise \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorris with Mary Luckhurst (moderator)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART 2: DEVISING FRICTION: ENSEMBLES, INDIVIDUALS AND THE INSTITUTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Climate Change and Devising Theatre Landscapes: A Discussion on the Collaboration and Development of\u003cbr\u003e an Ecocritical and Sustainable Performance – \u003cem\u003eLinda Hassall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Memories of the Future: The Problem of Devising Contested History in a University Context – \u003cem\u003ePedro Ilgenfritz and Paul Janman\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Devising ImPossibility: How to Turn an Early Modern Ending on Its Head in Celebration of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Marriage Equality Act – \u003cem\u003eMegan Evans\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Devising Exodus – \u003cem\u003eJames McKinnon\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e13.\u003c\/strong\u003e We’re All on this Waka: Utilizing Māori Narrative Forms in Collaborative Devising – \u003cem\u003eNicola Hyland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 3: DEVISING (BY) DEGREES \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Devising with Empathy – \u003cem\u003eHannah Joyce Banks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e15.\u003c\/strong\u003e The \u003cem\u003eInside\u003c\/em\u003e Project: Towards a ‘Universal’ Inclusive Theatre Devising Framework for Disabled and\u003cbr\u003e Non-Disabled Collaborators – \u003cem\u003eMilly Cooper, Peter Copeman and Stacy Holman Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e16.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Many Hats of the Applied Theatre (Student) Facilitator: Devising Across the Whole Community – \u003cem\u003eAnita Hallewas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e17.\u003c\/strong\u003e Working Together as One: Directing Devised Autobiographical Solo Performance – \u003cem\u003eSally Richards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART 4: DEVISING BRIDGES: UNIVERSITY–COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e18.\u003c\/strong\u003e Giving – and Taking – Voice: Self-Devising Theatrical Performance with Learning-Disabled Actors – \u003cem\u003eTony McCaffrey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e19.\u003c\/strong\u003e Devising as Research: Challenging Power and Ethics in Methodology through the Onion Theatre Project –\u003cem\u003eTaiwo Afolabi and Leah Tidey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e20.\u003c\/strong\u003e Working with Children: Intergenerational Devising Across Institutions – \u003cem\u003eKerryn Palmer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e21.\u003c\/strong\u003e Collaborating with Soldiers in Devising \u003cem\u003eContact!Unload\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cem\u003eGeorge Belliveau and Graham W. 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