Throw away the book: devising and higher education
| dc.contributor.author | Fitzsimmons Frey, Heather | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hyland, Nicola | |
| dc.contributor.author | McKinnon, James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-01T21:20:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-01T21:20:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the theatre world, ‘off book’ signifies a deadline in the creative process: the date by which performers are to have memorized 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 realized 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. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/10309374 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fitzsimmons Frey, H., Hyland, N., & McKinnon, J. (2024). Throw away the Book: Devising and Higher Education." In H. Fitzsimmons Frey, N. Hyland, & J. McKinnon (Eds.), Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education (Ch. 1, pp 10-24). Intellect, UK. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781789385007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3440 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | devised performance | |
| dc.subject | higher education | |
| dc.title | Throw away the book: devising and higher education | en |
| dc.type | Book Chapter |