Storytelling and Theatre: Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art

Mike Wilson

Macmillan Education UK, Sep 23, 2005 - Performing Arts - 240 pages

This will be of particular interest to undergraduates of performing arts and the substantial community of those engaged in storytelling, filling a noticeable void in an emerging field of scholarship. Michael Wilson addresses the recent rise of storytelling as a professional performance art by providing a critical survey of current practice and a critical framework for those debates currently taking place, and those debates which will undoubtedly emerge in future. The text includes critical analysis of a range of practices alongside interviews with key contemporary practitioners about their work.

About the author

MICHAEL WILSON is Principal Lecturer in Drama at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. His book Performance and Practice: Oral Narrative Traditions among Teenagers in Britain and Ireland (1997) was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Memorial Award, 1998. For many years he also worked as a professional storyteller and was a key player in developing the art form in the 80s and 90s.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Storytelling and Theatre: Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art; Theatre and Performance Practices
• Author: Mike Wilson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, 2005
• ISBN: 1403906653, 9781403906656
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Dance / Classical & Ballet; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism