Television as theatre text in the austere academy: a curricular exploration. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Miller, Hillary
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 24:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 299
• Page End: 315
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Playwrights -- pedagogy -- television -- neoliberal -- university; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2019.1604129
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The theatre classroom is necessarily a space in dialogue with myths about the marginalisation of theatre as an art and theatre audiences as a public. It is precisely because theatre is a marginalised discipline that curricula should incorporate the processes by which the labour of theatre artists changes value and joins the mainstream; playwrights employed in television offer a relevant study of just that. How do we revise undergraduate curricula in order to substantially address this intermediality in a way that is legible for students? And where do television and theatre meet in existing theatre courses and objectives?