Download or read book American Indian Dramaturgy written by Paul Roland Rathbun and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indian Theater in Performance written by Hanay Geiogamah and published by Los Angeles : UCLA American Indian Studies Center. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Native American Studies. AMERICAN INDIAN THEATER IN PERFORMANCE: A READER is the first comprehensive collection to present the views of leading playwrights, directors, scholars, and educators in contemporary Native theater. This groundbreaking collection of recent and earlier writings serves as both an overview of the field and a source book for further study and performance. Locating Native theater within the rich contexts of Native communities, tribal sources of creativity, performance traditions, and artistic innovations, the articles and interviews in this reader provide historical context and offer perspectives on directing, dramaturgy, and new play development in Native theater.
Download or read book Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance written by Jaye T. Darby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. Native American and First Nations theatre weaves the spiritual and aesthetic traditions of Native cultures into diverse, dynamic, contemporary plays that enact Indigenous human rights through the plays' visionary styles of dramaturgy and performance. The book begins by introducing readers to historical and cultural contexts helpful for reading Native American and First Nations drama, followed by an overview of Indigenous plays and theatre artists from across the century. Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First Nations theatre artists are continuing to create works that advocate for human rights through transformative Native performance practices. Addressing the complexities of this dynamic field, this volume offers critical grounding in the historical development of Indigenous theatre in North America, while analysing key Native plays and performance traditions from the mainland United States and Canada. In surveying Native theatre from the late 19th century until today, the authors explore the cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual concerns, as well as the political and revitalization efforts of Indigenous peoples. This book frames the major themes of the genre and identifies how such themes are present in the dramaturgy, rehearsal practices, and performance histories of key Native scripts.
Download or read book American Indian Dramaturgy written by Paul Roland Rathbun and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping the Web of Native American Dramaturgy written by Christy Lee Stanlake and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native American Drama written by Christy Stanlake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent rise in publications and professional productions of Native American plays moves Native theatre from specific, cultural communities into larger, more generalized audiences, who quickly discover that Native plays are uniquely different from mainstream drama. This is because Native theatre is its own field of drama, one that enacts Native intellectual traditions existing independently from western drama yet capable of extending mainstream theatrical theories. This study contends that Native dramaturgy possesses a network of distinctive discourses pertaining to Native American philosophies and relating to theatre's performative medium. Following an introduction that traces Native American theatre history from the 1900s to today, Native American Drama moves into a critical examination of Native dramaturgy. The study privileges voices of Native literary theorists, including Gerald Vizenor, Robert Allen Warrior, and LeAnne Howe, to introduce four Native discourses - platiality, storying, tribalography, and survivance - that intersect performative elements of space, speech, action, and movement.
Download or read book A Pillar of Fire to Follow written by Priscilla Sears and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pillar of Fire to Follow concerns the Indian dramas, a series of popular, nineteenth-century American melodramas that deal with the interaction of Indians and Anglo-Europeans. Priscilla Sears has analyzed these works from a mythological point of view, concentrating on the myths of Indian and Anglo-European identity and destiny and the ways in which they relieve the guilt emanating from contemporary Indian policy and the symbolic betrayal of fathers.
Download or read book Indigenous North American Drama written by Birgit Däwes and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.
Download or read book New Native American Drama written by Hanay Geiogamah and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian, the earliest, most widely performed, and most highly acclaimed of Geiogamah's plays, deals with a problem of the present -Indian alcoholism. But the play is not so much about alcoholism as it is about the social and moral obligations that Indian people owe to one another. Foghorn, through the use of humor rather than bitterness, tries to exorcise the harmful stereotyping that often stands in the way of non-Indians' understanding of Indians, and even on occasion of Indians' own appreciation of themselves. In the play 49 the author links the past with the present and points a road to the future. Here the approach is synchronic rather than diachronic. The value of Indian traditions is emphasized -but only where those traditions are used imaginatively and not treated as ossified relics to be blindly venerated. 49 celebrates the continuity of Indian life in the vigor of new forms and with an abiding optimism. This collection of plays-all widely performed and seriously and extensively reviewed-adds a new and important voice to the small body of Indian authors who write about their own people.
Download or read book American Gypsy written by Diane Glancy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of plays which cover such topics as generational relationships, Native American legends, and Native American beliefs, and includes an essay on Native American playwriting.
Download or read book Native American Performance and Representation written by S. E. Wilmer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native performance is a multifaceted and changing art form as well as a swiftly growing field of research. Native American Performance and Representation provides a wider and more comprehensive study of Native performance, not only its past but also its present and future. Contributors use multiple perspectives to look at the varying nature of Native performance strategies. They consider the combination and balance of the traditional and modern techniques of performers in a multicultural world. This collection presents diverse viewpoints from both scholars and performers in this field, both Natives and non-Natives. Important and well-respected researchers and performers such as Bruce McConachie, Jorge Huerta, and Daystar/Rosalie Jones offer much-needed insight into this quickly expanding field of study. This volume examines Native performance using a variety of lenses, such as feminism, literary and film theory, and postcolonial discourse. Through the many unique voices of the contributors, major themes are explored, such as indigenous self-representations in performance, representations by nonindigenous people, cultural authenticity in performance and representation, and cross-fertilization between cultures. Authors introduce important, though sometimes controversial, issues as they consider the effects of miscegenation on traditional customs, racial discrimination, Native women’s position in a multicultural society, and the relationship between authenticity and hybridity in Native performance. An important addition to the new and growing field of Native performance, Wilmer’s book cuts across disciplines and areas of study in a way no other book in the field does. It will appeal not only to those interested in Native American studies but also to those concerned with women’s and gender studies, literary and film studies, and cultural studies.
Download or read book Where the Pavement Ends written by William S. Yellow Robe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Quilter -- a staged reading at the Crystal Theatre in Missoula, Montana, 1988 -- a radio broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in its Radio Drama series, 1996 -- a staged reading by the New Jersey Repertory Theater Company, 1999 The Body Guards -- a full production by the Wakiknabe Theater Company, an intertribal theater company, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997 -- a second production by Wakiknabe at the Taos Arts Association, Taos, New Mexico, 1999 -- a staged reading by the New Jersey Repertory Theater Company, 1999 Rez Politics -- a play reading sponsored by the Wakiknabe Theater Company, 1997 The Council -- a full production by the Seattle Children's Theatre, 1991 -- a full production by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 1992 -- a production by the Wakiknabe Theater Company as part of a children's festival sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, 1999 Sneaky -- a production at the New World Theatre, 1987 -- a staged reading at Joe Papp's Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1995 -- two productions by the Wakiknabe Theater Company, 1998, 1999
Download or read book Dramaturgy of the Spectator written by Tatiana Korneeva and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.
Download or read book Native Gardens written by Karen Zacarías and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank. But a disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out war of taste, class, privilege, and entitlement. The hilarious results guarantee no one comes out smelling like a rose.
Download or read book Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1931 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / 10m, 4f, extras This evocative play charting the rocky romance between headstrong farmgirl Laurey and cocky cowhand Curley in a tale of early America during the settlement of the midwest was the basis of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Using the colorful vernacular of the period, Green Grow the Lilacs paints a picture of pioneer farmlife with colorful characters and language, presenting a dramatic challenge to professionals and amateurs alike.
Download or read book Angels in the American Theater written by Robert A Schanke and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of sixteen essays and fifteen illustrations, Angels in the American Theater explores not only how donors became angels but also their backgrounds, motivations, policies, limitations, support, and successes and failures.
Download or read book Seventh Generation written by Mimi D'Aponte and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre ranges from the groundbreaking work of Body Indian to the experimental performance style of Spiderwoman Theater. Contains: Indian Radio Days by LeAnne Howe and Roxy Gordon (Choctaw) The Story of Susannah by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Hawaiian) Body Indian by Hanay Geiogamah (Kiowa) The Woman Who was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance by Diane Glancy (Cherokee) Power Pipes by Spiderwoman Theater (Kuna/Rappahannock) Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Tayler (Ojibway) The Independence of Eddie Rose by Willam S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine/Nakota) The volume includes an introduction by the editor, Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte, Professor of Theatre at CUNY, and an epilogue by Elizabeth Theobald, director of the Manshantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut.
