The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students

By Les Essif

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ISBN 1-55238-213-3
240 pp.
6" x 9"
b/w Photographs, Index

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About the Book

This book guides readers through the process of exploring and staging a successful play when using a foreign language. Incorporating a wide array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analyzing, and theorizing theatre, this edition includes valuable strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French. From the collaborative aspects of rewriting the original dramatic text, to performance semiotics, the organization of rehearsal schedules and evaluation of student-actors,
The French Play is a unique step-by-step guide to the demands and challenges of producing a foreign language play. Aimed at university drama students, this book will also appeal to scholars of performance and dramatic staging, as well as teachers of literature, especially foreign-language and English-as-a-second-language practitioners who require a strong theoretical and critical approach to literature and drama in a foreign language

About the Author

Dr. Les Essif, a former New York City police officer, is the author of numerous articles on French theatre and theories of drama and performance. He earned his PhD from Brown University and is currently a professor of French Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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