Casting a movement the welcome table initiative / edited by Claire Syler and Daniel Banks.
| Other author | Syler, Claire. |
| Other author | Banks, Daniel, 1965- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | xix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword : from "I love your freckles" to "representation matters" / Liesl Tommy -- The welcome table : casting for an integrated society / Daniel Banks -- The chasm between / Ayanna Thompson -- Playing with "race" in the new millennium / Justin Emeka -- Nevertheless, whiteness persisted / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Casting pearls before authenticity / Yussef El Guindi -- Reorienting : a Middle Eastern American casting case study / Torange Yeghiazarian -- Casting Middle Eastern American theatre : cultural, academic, and professional challenges / Michael Malek Najjar -- Casting disabled actors : taking our rightful place onstage / Christine Bruno -- The difference disability makes : unique considerations in casting performers with disabilities / Carrie Sandahl -- A great and complicated thing : reimagining disability / Victoria Lewis -- The sea will listen / Caridad Svich -- Setting a global table with multilingual theatre / Eunice S. Ferreira -- Creating emergent spaces : casting, community-building, and extended dramaturgy / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong -- Journey / Ty Defoe (Giizhig) -- Native voices at the Autry : casting the room / Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) and Jean Bruce Scott -- Decolonial practices for contemporary native theatre / Courtney Elkin Mohler -- Whose story is this to tell? / Mei Ann Teo -- Casting, cross-racial performance, and the work of creativity / Dorinne Kondo -- Artists of color/cross-racial casting / Donatella Galella -- Reaparecer / Elaine Ávila -- Collidescope 2.0 : performing the "alien gaze" / Priscilla Page -- The spatio-temporal logics of collidescope's welcome table / Brandi Wilkins Catanese. |
| Abstract | "Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting. Drawing on the notion of a 'welcome table'--a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre--the book's contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts, including Middle Eastern American theatre, disability culture, multilingual performance, Native American theatre, color- and culturally-conscious casting, and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage, and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor's embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance, skin color, gender, sexuality, and ability, casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting, this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field. As a resource-driven text suitable for both practitioners and academics, Casting a Movement seeks to frame and mobilize a social movement focused on casting, access, and representation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019009028 |
| ISBN | 9781138594470 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781138594777 (softcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |