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Author: Chris Johnston
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.360kg
ISBN: 9781854599056
ISBN 10: 1854599054
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 January 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'This is an excellent resource book for anyone involved in participatory drama' Guild of Drama Adjudicators Newsletter 'It is friendly, accessible, well structured and full of good advice - much of it plain common sense... Reading it is like being in a room buzzing with relaxed and informed conversation about basic principles, and good ruses for realising both general and specific aims.' Mick Wallis, Theatre Research International 'House of Games is a book I will return to and learn much from' Dorinda Hulton, Studies in Theatre Production
'This is an excellent resource book for anyone involved in participatory drama' * Guild of Drama Adjudicators Newsletter * 'It is friendly, accessible, well structured and full of good advice - much of it plain common sense... Reading it is like being in a room buzzing with relaxed and informed conversation about basic principles, and good ruses for realising both general and specific aims' * Theatre Research International * 'House of Games is a book I will return to and learn much from' -- Dorinda Hulton * Studies in Theatre Production *
Author Information
Chris Johnston (1952-2017) was a writer, performer, director, teacher, and workshop facilitator who championed work in community-based theatre and improvisation. His work with Insight Arts Trust (1988-98) and then Rideout (1999-2016) pioneered a range of theatre and arts-based strategies for working with prisoners and those on probation. His experiments with ensemble work were realised in two companies, ESP and Fluxx. Particularly with Fluxx he developed Citizen Theatre - improvised performances that explored issues of concern to local communities. A further company, Livestock, was established in Brighton with a focus on arts and education. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Warwick between 1998 and 2003, and between 2003 and 2006 he was an AHRC Fellow in Creative & Performing Arts. He was awarded a Butler Trust Award in 2005 for his work in the Prison Service and made a Companion of LIPA in 2011. His writings for Nick Hern Books include House of Games (2006, first published by Routledge in 1998), The Improvisation Game (2006) and Drama Games for Those Who Like to Say No (2010).
