Theatre of Witness
Title | Theatre of Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Teya Sepinuck |
Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1849053820 |
Exploring diverse human experiences in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book is of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, and spiritual seekers.
Theatre as Witness
Title | Theatre as Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Yaël Farber |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1786823276 |
With a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Yael Farber's trilogy of plays bears powerful testimony to the personal truths of those who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in South Africa. Woman in Waiting tells of Thembi Mtshali's separation from her mother as a child, only to continue this legacy of waiting when forced to leave her own baby to mind other people's children in the white suburbs. Amajuba is a moving tapestry of different personal perspectives on growing up under Apartheid. He Left Quietly is the harrowing experience of Duma Kumalo, one of the wrongly accused Sharpeville Six, on South Africa's Death Row; preparations made for his death and ultimate reprieve.
Witness onstage
Title | Witness onstage PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Flynn |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2019-11-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526126214 |
Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author’s work as a performer, producer, and researcher of documentary theatre both in Russia and internationally to provide new perspective on the mechanics of theatre as a venue for civic engagement.
Witness for the Prosecution
Title | Witness for the Prosecution PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573618000 |
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Witness (Scholastic Gold)
Title | Witness (Scholastic Gold) PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Hesse |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545345944 |
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Art as a Political Witness
Title | Art as a Political Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Kia Lindroos |
Publisher | Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-02-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3847405802 |
The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.
Performing History
Title | Performing History PDF eBook |
Author | Freddie Rokem |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2002-04-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1587293366 |
In his examination of the ways in which theatre participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, Freddie Rokem concentrates on the ways in which theatre after World War II has presented different aspects of the French Revolution and the Holocaust, showing us that by “performing history” actors bring the historical past and the theatrical present together.