American Indian theater in performance : a reader

Book

American Indian theater in performance : a reader / edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby.

Geiogamah, Hanay, 1945- (Added Author). Darby, Jaye T. (Added Author).

Summary:

This reader is the first comprehensive collection to present the views of leading playwrights, directors, scholars, and educators in contemporary Native theater. A ground-breaking collection of recent and earlier writings, it serves as both an overview of the field and a source book for further study and performance. Locating Native theater within the rich contexts of Native communities, tribal sources of creativity, performance traditions, and artistic innovations, the articles and interviews provide historical context and offer perspectives on directing, dramaturgy, and new play development in Native theater.

Record details

ISBN: 0935626522
ISBN: 9780935626520
ISBN: 9790935626529
Physical Description: xv, 414 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: "Contemporary Native theater: bibliography and resource materials": pages 367-390.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: A talking circle on native theater / Jaye T. Darby -- Credo for American Indian theatre / Lloyd Kiva New -- Setting the stage: an historical overview / Duane Champagne -- The sacred hoop: a contemporary perspective / Paula Gunn Allen -- The ceremonial motion of Indian time: long ago, so far / Paula Gunn Allen -- Conducting ceremony / Ed McGaa, Eagle Man -- Native American theatre / Jeffrey F. Huntsman -- The Indian as media hand-me-down / Donald L. Kaufmann -- Noble or ruthless savage? The American Indian on stage and in the drama / Don B. Wilmeth -- The new American Indian theater: an introduction / Hanay Geiogamah -- Emergence and discovery: Native American theater comes of age / Bruce King -- The American Indian Theatre Ensemble / Kent R. Brown -- The theater of Hanay Geiogamah / Annamaria Pinazzi -- Come to the ceremonial circle: ceremony and renewal in Hanay Geiogamah's 49 / Jaye T. Darby -- The American Indian Community House / Sally Ann Heath -- Circles upon circles upon circles: native women in theater and performance / Ann Haugo -- Alive and well: native theatre in Canada / Drew Hayden Taylor -- Native voices: new directions in new play development / Randy Reinholz and Jean Bruce Scott -- Old circles, new circles / Hanay Geiogamah -- MELUS interview: Hanay Geiogamah / Kenneth Lincoln -- Native playwrights' newsletter interview: Bruce King / Paul Rathbun -- Native playwrights' newsletter interview: Lisa Mayo / Ann Haugo -- Native playwrights' newsletter interview: William Yellow Robe, Jr. / Paul Rathbun -- Native American theater and the theater that will come / Diane Glancy -- Reaching into the stream / Elizabeth Theobald -- Contemporary native theater: bibliography and resource materials / Ann Haugo.