ABSTRACT

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. 

A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts. 

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

The Affirmation

part |70 pages

Methods of social activism

chapter Offering 1|18 pages

The Hendricks Method

chapter Offering 2|14 pages

SoulWork

chapter Offering 3|21 pages

Nudging the memory

Creating performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women

chapter Offering 4|15 pages

Art saves lives

Rebecca Rice and the performance of Black feminist improv for social change

part |49 pages

Methods of intervention

chapter Offering 5|17 pages

Seeing Shakespeare through brown eyes

chapter Offering 6|17 pages

Ritual Poetic Drama within the African Continuum

The journey from Shakespeare to Shange

chapter Offering 7|13 pages

Remembering, rewriting, and re-imagining

Afrocentric approaches to directing new work for the theatre

part |63 pages

Methods of cultural plurality

chapter Offering 8|29 pages

The Hip Hop Theatre Initiative

We the Griot

chapter Offering 9|16 pages

Kadogo Mojo

Global crossings in the theatre

chapter Offering 10|16 pages

#UnyieldingTruth

Employing culturally relevant pedagogy