The Play's the Thing: Exploring Text in Drama and Therapy

ISBN-13: 9780415114981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str.

Marina Jenkyns;Jenkyns Marina

Opis

This text attempts to convey the excitement of working therapeutically with dramatic text though a personal analysis of plays from a variety of periods and cultures. Influenced by the theories of Winnicott and Klein the author lays bear the dynamics of relationships and plots to show how they can be used to help us understand our own relationships to each other and the world around us. This text integrates therapeutic practice and literature, and contains ideas for dramatherapy practice, theatre directors and teachers.

Spis treści

1 DRAMATHERAPY: THROUGH THE LENS OF THE PLAY 2 PLAYING WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET 3 THEORY INTO PRACTICE: MEANS AND METHODS 4 BEGINNING: ROOTS BY ARNOLD WESKER 5 PAST INTO PRESENT – THE WIDER CONTEXT: CLOUD NINE BY CARYL CHURCHILL 6 ‘THAT WAY MADNESS LIES’: THURSDAY’S CHILD BY DAPHNE THOMAS 7 THE OPPRESSION OF TABOO: GHOSTS BY HENRIK IBSEN 8 WALLS WITHIN WALLS – SOCIETY, FAMILY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: A SHAFT OF SUNLIGHT BY ABHIJAT JOSHI 9 DEATH AND ACCEPTANCE: RIDERS TO THE SEA BY 10 THE EPILOGUE

O autorze

Marina Jenkyns is a freelance dramatherapist, lecturer, trainer and director. She also has a private therapy and supervision practice.