Description
Book SynopsisThe book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'. -- .
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS AND TABLES
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Theatre, Learning and the Aesthetic Dimension. Preliminary perspectivesEARLY WARNINGS: THEATRE TO 1947
Chapter 2. Prelude: New Drama, new audiences
Chapter 3. Agitating the audience: Theatre, propaganda and education: Radical n the 1930s
Chapter 4. Theatre and the challenge of Science, 1936-37
POST-WAR: THEATRE, LEARNING & PARTICIPATION
Chapter 5. Participatory Theatre: Audience participation and aesthetic distance
Chapter 6. Participatory Theatre: Positioning the audience – framing the dramaChapter 7. Creative Gaps: the Didactic and the Dialogic
Chapter 8. Targets and Outcomes – and Playfulness
Chapter 9. Inter-acting with the Past
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY & OTHER SOURCES
