@inbook{299d3cd9ea5c47dc930959cad377fd72,
title = "Why Study Drama?",
author = "Joseph Kelleher",
note = "The co-edited book (Kelleher, Bleeker, Kear, Roms) is the first in a series of monographs and collections (directed by the same editors) aimed at exploring questions that performance itself is uniquely capable of asking, emphasising inter-relations of 'making' and 'thinking', and thereby identifying in theatre practices aesthetic and political forms of action. The current volume, designed for classroom use, rehearses these principles at the level of pedagogic methodology. The book involves 21 curated chapters, each constructed around questions (articulated in the chapter titles) that provoke a 'thinking through' of fundamental topics and problematics across the discipline. Rather than a textbook that describes a state of knowledge, then, the book aims to inculcate an approach to research as a process of continuous learning, involving teachers and students in a mutual praxis. Kelleher's individual contribution - beyond the shared conceptualising, curating and editing of the project as a whole - is a co-authored Introduction (10,000 words) that sets out the principles, methods and scope of the overall project; and a single-authored chapter ('Why Study Drama?', 7,000 words) that opens the book with an investigation of 'study' as such, exploring ways in which 'study' may be a fundamental problematic of dramatic text in its relation to the theatrical event (as experienced, differentially, by both performers and spectators). As with all chapters in the book, the investigation is worked through a detailed analytical case study, contextualised with an account of current and established research in the field, and framed by methodological reflections aimed at provoking the next generation theatre makers and thinkers.",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781472579614",
series = "Thinking Through Theatre",
publisher = "Methuen Drama: Bloomsbury ",
pages = "21--32",
editor = "Joe Kelleher and Maaike Bleeker and Heike Roms and Adrian Kear",
booktitle = "Thinking Through Theatre and Performance",
}