Hi Concept-Lo Tech: Theatre for Everyone in Any Place

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Theatre does not depend on special effects. It is not the sum of its physical trappings. With the knowledge that theatre can be made by anyone, in any place, at any time, Barbara Carlisle and Don Drapeau have developed Hi Concept-Lo Tech, a technique that focuses on the performance dynamic as the essence of theatre. Too much theatre today ignores the basic premise of communication between audience and performer. Hi Concept-Lo Tech restores that focus on communication by suggesting theatre-making exercises that open us to a deeper understanding of the performance dynamic. With anecdotes, sidebars, leader dialogue, and side-coaching suggestions, as well as follow-up discussions and ideas for deepening the theatre experience, Hi Concept-Lo Tech is the ideal book for practitioners - actors, directors, designers - in community and professional theatre who want a fresh start; high school theatre teachers who feel they are caught in the rut of traditional theatre practice; and theatre groups who want to do original work but have no idea how to get started. The processes in Hi Concept-Lo Tech are explained using questions, exercises, and illustrations that demystify the art of theatre making on the one hand and explore its power and importance on the other.

SYNOPSIS

Organized in exercises that immediately engage people in theatre making, the book deliberately demystifies the mechanics of theatre, and returns the reader to the basic premises of the art of making theatre.

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