(Aleph-naught): A play & a plan

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Vernon Press, Feb 10, 2020 - Performing Arts - 247 pages

Aleph-naught is a performative text that creatively harnesses Dinesh’s findings from three of her previous works: Memos from a Theatre Lab: Exploring What Immersive Theatre “Does”, Memos from a Theatre Lab: Spaces, Relationships, & Immersive Theatre, and Memos from a Theatre Lab: Immersive Theatre & Time.

As the latest endeavour in Dinesh’s ongoing commitment to creating socially relevant, immersive, theatrical works, this book contains “A Play” and “A Plan”: a script that can be staged; a plan for how to work with participants (performers and spectators) in the realisation of that script. By using one specific play to address larger questions around staging Immersive Theatre, Aleph-naught is a unique resource for practitioners and researchers who are committed to immersive forms of socially relevant theatre praxis.

 

Contents

The Reception
12
The ProRefuge Activists
20
The Personal Trainer
29
The Publicist
38
The Family
45
The Mentor
53
The Lawyer
61
The Art Therapist
69
RESIDENT 1
84
RESIDENT 3
92
Dear interested performer
148
Dear interested spectator
168
Actor Selection
182
Spectator Selection
197
Actor Training
204
Spectator Training
226

The AntiRefuge Activists
77
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

11 Tent 13 Tent 9 Tent Accepted Aleph ANTI-REFUGE ACTIVISTs ask the RESIDENTs Assessing your response asylum seekers audience member biases choices choose context COUNSELOR countable infinities craft create CWRC CWRC’s debrief Denied displaced communities documentarians Documentation Centre duration engage Enya Exercise facilitator facility flash fiction focus goal happened individuals information packet information required interactions Interjector interview invited Iteration kind LAWYER lived experience MASSEUR MENTOR Moesha nation-state naught outsider character participation particular performers Perhaps person potential PRO-REFUGE ACTIVISTs production crew PUBLICIST questionnaire real world REBEL CLOWNs refugee camp refugee crises refugees and asylum rehearsal RESIDENT 12 RESIDENT’s response to Question restaurant RESTAURANTEERs Romario SECURITY team self-assessment Slide change space speak specific spectator Stage stories Tent 15 Tent 3 Tent Tent 9 theatrical experience THERAPIST therapy dog things TRAINER understand Wherever they want WORKER

About the author (2020)

Nandita Dinesh holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York. Focused on the role that theatre can play during and after a violent conflict, Dinesh has conducted community-based theatre projects in Kashmir, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and the United States.

In 2017 she was awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Dinesh has written extensively about her work, for more information visit: https://chroniclesfromkashmir.org/the-books.

Bibliographic information

Title(Aleph-naught): A play & a plan
Series in Performing Arts
AuthorNandita Dinesh
PublisherVernon Press, 2020
ISBN1622738136, 9781622738137
Length247 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Performing Arts / Theater / Direction & Production
Performing Arts / Theater / General
  
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