The French Play: Exploring Theatre with Students of a Foreign Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781552382134)

The French Play is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of French-language plays as models, author Les Essif leads readers through the process of exploring drama and building a successful play with an eye toward applying re-creative strategies. Essif promotes an array of new strategies for planning, producing, analyzing, and theorizing theatre, covering such essential topics as: exercises to produce a total, corporeal expression of the foreign language; performance semiotics; organization of rehearsal schedules; the collaborative assignment of roles; audience participation; publicity and promotion; taking the play on tour; and the evaluation of student actors. Aimed at university drama students, The French Play is also a must-have for scholars and teachers of performance and dramatic staging, foreign languages, English as a second language, and anyone else who requires a strong theoretical and critical approach to foreign language drama.

Author: Les Essif
ISBN-10: 1552382133
ISBN-13: 9781552382134
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2006
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 281