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Performing Arts Direction & Production

Big Secret Book

An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theatre

by (author) Denise Clarke

foreword by John Murrell

Publisher
Durvile Publications
Initial publish date
Nov 2018
Category
Direction & Production
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781988824338
    Publish Date
    Nov 2018
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

The Big Secret Book is an invaluable guide on the subject of creativity, no matter the preferred artistic discipline. Written by Denise Clarke, director of One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab Intensive, the book outlines methods and methodologies of the Lab that have inspired writers, dancers, musicians, as well as performance theatre artists. Sidebar case studies of Denise Clarke’s remarkable performances disclose the big secrets behind her unique and brilliant style of performance creation.

About the authors

Denise Clarke is an Associate Artist with One Yellow Rabbit (OYR)Performance Theatre and is the Director of the OYR Summer Lab Intensive. She has toured extensively in shows she has created or co-created for OYR including Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp, Mata Hari: Tigress at the City Gates, Doing Leonard Cohen, Thunderstruck, Sign Language, and Dream Machine. Most recently in 2018, she choreographed Hadrian for the Canadian Opera Company. Denise has been recognized by the University of Calgary with an Honourary Doctorate from the Faculty of Arts, and in December 2013 she was appointed as a Member to the Order of Canada.

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John Murrell is one of the most frequently produced Canadian playwrights. His plays have been translated into fifteen different languages and performed internationally. His work for the stage includes Waiting for the Parade, a Canadian classic; Memoir, which has been produced world-wide; Chalmers Best Canadian Play Award winners Farther West and The Faraway Nearby; and the libretto for the acclaimed opera Filumena. As a translator, he has created frequently revived versions of Chekhovâ??s Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard; Ibsenâ??s The Doll House; Rostandâ??s Cyrano de Bergerac; and The Four Lives of Marie, Elisaâ??s Skin, and Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse, all by Carole Fréchette.

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