Acts of Service provides a rationale for contemporary, interactive, nonscripted theatre and connects it to the earliest forms of storytelling. There are chapters on spontaneity, improvisational performance, and theatre for social ecology. The author draws upon his experience as founder of Playback Theatre, an improvisational story theatre, oral studies, psychodrama, and years spent in the third world.
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"I am indebted to Jonathan Fox's remarkable (and underappreciated) book Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, and Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre. His description of the parallel paths of scripted and non-scripted theater is seminal." -- Joel Plotkin, State University of New York
"I find the book stimulating, challenging, exciting and illuminating." -- Peter Wright, University of New England, Armidale
"The whole concept of nonscripted theatre is very helpful to me in relation to my teaching, so your book gives me a sense of groundedness in what it is I'm doing." -- Deborah Welsh, Syracuse University
"I find the book stimulating, challenging, exciting and illuminating." -- Peter Wright, University of New England, Armidale
"The whole concept of nonscripted theatre is very helpful to me in relation to my teaching, so your book gives me a sense of groundedness in what it is I'm doing." -- Deborah Welsh, Syracuse University
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Jonathan Fox is the founder of Playback Theatre and of the Centre for Playback Theatre. He was the artistic and executive director of the original Playback Theatre company from its inception in 1975. He is the author of Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre; the editor of The Essential Moreno: Writings on Spontaneity, Psychodrama and Group Method; and co-editor of Gathering Voices: Essays on Playback Theatre. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel in Germany for artistic and scholarly achievement in theatre.
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Playback Theatre, Viola Spolin, Peter Brook, Living Theatre, Dorothy Heathcote, New York, Black Elk, Performance Group, Paolo Freire, Augusto Boa, United States, Joseph Chaikin, Eric Bentley, Barbara Myerhoff, Paul Tillich, Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Matthew Arnold, Martin Buber, Brian Way, Lee Strasberg, Robert Fitzgerald, Educational Theatre Browse Sample Pages:
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- Teaching Performance Studies (Theater in the Americas) by Nathan Stucky on page 216
- Crossing Boundaries: Explorations in Therapy & the Arts, A Festschrift for Paolo Knill by Stephen K. Levine on page 147
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