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Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education

Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education

Fitzsimmons Frey, Heather
Hyland, Nicola
McKinnon, James

Hardcover

General DramaGeneral EducationPerformance Art

ISBN10: 1789387701
ISBN13: 9781789387704
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

In the theatre world, 'off book' signifies a deadline in the creative process: the date by which performers are to have memorised their lines and will no longer be allowed to carry their play script - the 'book' - on stage. As such, Off Book makes a strangely appropriate title for a book about devised performance in higher education. In its usual context, 'off book' captures the tension between ephemeral, live performance and durable, authorized literature: in one sense, the book - the written play - is the essential core, the seed that gives the performance life and meaning. Yet the opposite could be equally true: an 'on book' performance would not really be a play at all, and an actor reciting lines out of a script in hand is not really acting. A play is only realised in, or through, a performance. We cannot really learn, or play, our part until we can put the book down and enter the stage without it.

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