‘In drama, we are the creators. Like in a skeleton, the bones of drama only work together. The human context—the situation, the people and their relationships—are the flesh. The body is given shape and animated by the way we focus those basic elements, and how we place them in space and time. We breathe life into the body through the story and the tension we create, and we give it language and movement to express itself, clothing the drama with its mood and symbols.’
In 1987 Brad Haseman and John O’Toole released Dramawise, a dynamic guide to drama education. This book stands as a definitive text for teachers, students and drama practitioners, shaping many classroom programs and curricula at a state, national and international level. Dramawise Reimagined is the successor. It reaches beyond the original concepts, offering newly challenging drama activities that reflect complex questions in today’s society.
The result is a complete coursebook for students and teachers of secondary-school drama, featuring activities that thoroughly detail each element of drama. This is done using process dramas and plays from the wider world. Practical drama activities are supported with in-depth discussion of each of the elements of dramatic form, as well as traditional and contemporary dramatic meanings and approaches to play-making contextualised by the elements of theatre.
BRAD HASEMAN is Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic) for the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. He has worked as a teacher and researcher for over 30 years and in recent years has been an invited keynote speaker and workshop leader in Singapore, Canada, Norway, The Netherlands and Austria. His work also takes him throughout the Pacific where he has taught and given workshops in the Solomon Islands, PNG and Kiribati in the Central Pacific.
JOHN O’TOOLE has been practising, teaching and writing about drama and the arts for over fifty years, especially in educational and community contexts. He has worked with people of all ages on all inhabited continents, exploring and co-writing and directing community and educational projects. His 1976 book, Theatre in Education, was the first in this area. He followed this up with numerous text-books, teacher and student handbooks, and research books, on educational drama and applied theatre, in both of which fields he was an early pioneer. Many of these were co-written and some have become classics. His most well-known books include The Process of Drama, Dramawise, Cooling Conflict, Pretending to Learn and Educational Research – Creative Thinking and Doing. He has co-written two books for Currency: Dramawise Revisited (2017, with Brad Haseman), and Stand up for Literature! (2020, with Julie Dunn). From 2009-2013 he was Lead Writer for The Arts and for Drama in the Australian Curriculum. In 2001 he received an American Alliance for Theater and Education lifetime achievement award, and in 2014 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for services to drama education.
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| Extent | 192 |
| Edition | First |
| Size | 245 x 170 |
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