| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 245 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Theater -- Casting -- United States
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Theater and society -- United States
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Minorities in the performing arts -- Employment -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Direction & Production.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
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Theater and society
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Theater -- Casting
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Syler, Claire, editor
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Banks, Daniel, 1965- editor.
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| LC no. |
2021701943 |
| ISBN |
9780429948275 |
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0429948271 |
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9780429488221 |
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042948822X |
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9780429948282 |
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042994828X |
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9780429948268 |
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0429948263 |
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