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Approaching Theatre: Contents

Approaching Theatre

Contents

Contents

FOREWORD

PREFACE

I. Performance studies

1. The field

2. Means of investigation

3. Terminology

4. Methods

5. Performance models

6. Production and reception of performance

7. Pleasure and knowledge

8. Media theory

II. Theatre and the media: Specificity and interference

1. Theatre within a theory of media

2. Dramaturgy and specificity of the media

3. Interferences between media

III. Four approaches

1. Historical survey of theatrical forms

2. Sociology

3. Theatre anthropology

4. Semiotics

IV. Pedagogics of theatre

1. Analysis of the text

2. Analysis of the performance

V. How to note performance?
Reading questionnaires

1. Questionnaire 1

2. Questionnaire 2

3. Questionnaire 3

4. Questions about questionnaires
for theatre analysis

VI. From analysis to production: Dramaturgy

1. Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2. Royal Shakespeare Company’s
Nicholas Nickleby

3. Pina Bausch’s Tanzabend 2

4. Conclusion

VII. Three applications

1. Minetti, directed by Philippe Sireuil

2. The Seagull, directed by Antoine Vitez

3. As You Like It. A dramaturgic analysis

NOTE ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

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