TY - BOOK AU - Higgins, Jeanmarie AU - Higgins, Jeanmarie TI - Teaching Critical Performance Theory : : In Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities SN - 9780367409302 U1 - 792.028 HIG PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - :Taylor & Francis Group KW - Art KW - Outline of sports, games and entertainment KW - Stage presentations KW - Theater -- Study and teaching KW - Drama -- Study and teaching N1 - Description based upon print version of record. Exploring A Raisin in the Sun as "reality check"; Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Teaching critical performance theory in today's educational landscape -- References -- Part I Course design -- 1 Doing things with theory: Situated cognition and theatre pedagogy -- Individualist versus situative -- The puzzle of sociocultural production and reception -- Class 1: form your teams -- Class 2: establish workflow -- Class 2 objectives: -- Classes 3, 4, and 5 -- Class 6 (and 7, if needed) The journal: metacognitive reflection -- Notes on assessment -- Discussion: pedagogy that is grounded in critical theory -- References -- 2 Feminist musical theatre pedagogy -- Overture: revisiting Oklahoma! -- Historical perspective, contemporary reverberations -- Musical theatre at the undergraduate level -- Entr'acte: a (re)visitation -- A feminist approach enacted -- Outmarch: beyond the classroom -- Notes -- References -- 3 Theory over time: Asian American performance, critical theory, and the theatre history survey Beyond the anthology: critical theory and post-1965 Asian American theatre -- Chronology over geography: syllabi and organization -- Theory over time: concluding thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 4 From systemic dramaturgy to systemic pedagogy: Rethinking theatre history and technology -- The way we do then, now -- Backward-and-forward compatibility -- Zeami the Constructivist: reorganizing our topics -- Conclusion: the principles of systemic dramaturgy -- Sample syllabus: Systemic dramaturgy: An introduction -- Course description -- Course goals -- Course schedule -- Notes -- References 5 Contemporary playwriting pedagogies: A survey of recent introductory playwriting syllabi -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Classroom identities -- 6 Performing blackness, ecodramaturgy, and social justice: Toward a radical pedagogy -- Early errors -- Identity formation and radical pedagogy -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Casting Christopher: Disability pedagogy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Casting Christopher: cripping up, disability drag, and faithful representation Siobhan's pedagogical work -- Curious online: a "site at which autism is under construction" -- Concluding concerns: theatre's commitments to the "real" -- Notes -- References -- 8 Greening the curriculum: Introducing ecocriticism and ecodrama to students in the classroom and rehearsal studio -- Introducing ecocriticism -- Greening the curriculum: from the rehearsal studio to the undergraduate stage -- Greening the curriculum: within undergraduate classrooms -- Notes -- References -- 9 Teaching African American plays as "reality checks" -- or, why theatre still matters ER -