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Applied Theater Series
Baxter, Veronica, and Katharine E Low, editors. Performing Health and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/982201144
O'Connor, Peter, and Michael Anderson. Applied Theatre: Research: Radical Departures. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/897378965
White, Gareth. Applied Theatre: Aesthetics. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/898214025
Mullen, Molly, editor. Applied Theatre: Economies. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1044769299
McCormick, Sheila, editor. Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/993254534
Prentki, Tim. Applied Theatre: Development. Edited by Michael Balfour and Sheila Preston, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/898214090
Reason, Matthew, and Nick Rowe, editors. Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art. New York, NY, USA, 2017. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/986523857
Preston, Sheila. Applied Theatre: Facilitation: Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/956376439
Featured Books in Applied Theatre
Boal, Augusto. Theatre of the Oppressed. Pluto Press, 2019. https://stfrancisuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090130646
Fences by
A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship.
Death of a Salesman by
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time
Waiting for Godot by
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences,Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius …Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.” The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains oneof the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
Topdog/Underdog by
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.