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Author:   Soseh Yekanians
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367490843

ISBN 10:   0367490846
Pages:   110
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments IV Introduction 1 Field of Study 1 Structure of the Book 6 Methodology 7 Practice-led Research 8 Tacit Knowledge 9 Autoethnography and Reflexivity 11 The Interviews 13 In Summary 14 References 15 Chapter One: Attracted to Theatre 18 Setting the Scene 18 Prologue 18 The Essence of Theatre 19 Theatre as a Social Construct *3 The Theatre and Me 26 References 31 Chapter Two: Seeking Identity 33 Searching for Self 33 Identifying Identity 33 What’s in a Home? 42 Belonging and Displacement 47 Flirting with the ""Unhomely"" and the ""In-Between"" 49 The Other 52 References 58 Chapter Three: Affinity with Armenia, a Narrative in Two Parts 62 Part I What Went Before 62 Birth of a Nation 62 The Beginnings of the Invaders 65 The Armenian Genocide 66 The Republic of Armenia Today 71 My Voyage from a Dream to Reality 72 September 2008 72 Part II The Journey Back 76 September 2014 75 A New Armenia or a New Me? 78 References 87 Chapter Four: Dating Directing 90 Deconstructing Directing 90 Background 90 Collaborative Research through the Kitchen Sink Collective 95 Turning Points in the Research 98 Moment One 98 Moment Two 100 To Be or Not to Be 102 Homing versus Belonging 104 The Director’s Journey 109 Immersion into the Practice of Directing 112 No Worries and Uncle Jack 112 Background 112 Stereotype, Defamiliarisation and Difference 115 References 128 Conclusion 131 Final Thoughts 138 Appendices 140 Appendices 1 140 1.1 Interview Questions from Phase 1 140 1.2 Interview Questions from Phase 2 143 1.3 Full list of theatre directors interviewed 145"

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Dr Soseh Yekanians is a senior lecturer in Theatre Media at Charles Sturt University. While her research focuses on understandings of Self, belonging and identity formation with specific reference to theatre directing, she is also fascinated with how theatre and the performing arts more generally, can speak to an individual’s sense of displacement. Dr Yekanians hopes that with more research on how cultural stereotypes manifest in individuals through the pressures of society and how these stereotypes are performed via theatrical representations onstage, performance as a cultural phenomenon can begin to break down harmful stereotypes and offer cross-cultural exchanges that develop and empower people’s (re)discovery of identity offstage.

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