Theatre of the Absurd

Title: Theatre of the Absurd
Author: Hughes, John (Ed)
Price: $39.95

These volumes offer workshop approaches for studying some of the classic plays of modern drama. The approaches offered will help secondary and tertiary students gain critical insights into the language used in the plays, and the theatrical forms and devices employed, and provide methods for character analysis and thematic examination.

The student-centred interactive strategies presented will also encourage students to bring a play alive by exploring form and content which takes the play off the page and, in the imagination of the students, onto the stage.

Theatre of the Absurd
Contents

Introduction ? John Hughes
Play plot grid
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Comedy in Godot
Character profile: Vladimir and Estragon
Relationship: Pozzo & Lucky
The pattern of waiting
Role of the audience
The student designer
God in Godot
Playing with language
Comparing scenes: Enter Boy
The role of Godot
What is communication?

Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Character trees
Character assassination
Games people play: a jigsaw approach
An ebb and flow chart
To be or not to be
Marriage counselling
Conscience plays
Setting / staging
Communication and conflict
Workshop and essay


Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Dramatic devices (1)
Dramatic devices (2)
Allusions
Classicism and romanticism
Et in Arcadia Ego
On Byron and romantic poetry
Characters then
Characters now
Language play
Epigrams and wit
Lost genius
Essays
photocopiable

Publication date: 01/01/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921085031
Publishing status: Last copy available