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Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative

Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative

Syler, Claire
Banks, Daniel

Hardcover

Theater HistoryTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 1138594474
ISBN13: 9781138594470
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 23 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.

Drawing on the notion of a welcome table--a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre--the book's contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts, including Middle Eastern American theatre, Disability culture, multilingual performance, Native American theatre, color- and culturally-conscious casting, and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage, and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor's embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance, skin color, gender, sexuality, and ability, casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting, this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field.

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