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Performing history : how to research, write, act, and coach historical performances
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- Creator
- Ann E. Birney and Joyce M. Thierer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781442278899, 1442278897, 9781442278905, 1442278900, 9781442278912
- OCLC
- on1005186682
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- What does it take to do a good historical performance? -- Overcoming fear of research with historians' powerful tools -- Designing your performance -- Performance: it's all about the audience when there's no fourth wall -- Sharing the mantle of authority: young people interpret history -- Using historical performance skills to enhance other traditions of costumed interpretation -- Dreams and plans -- Appendix A: Historical performance camp preparation timetable -- Appendix B: Daily responsibilities of local arrangements chair during historical performance camp -- Appendix C: Sample flyer -- Appendix D: Sample application and registration form -- Appendix E: Sample schedule: historical performance camp -- Appendix F: sample schedule: night at your museum camp! -- Appendix G: sample historic figures list -- Appendix H: special invitation -- Appendix I: office tools and supplies for historical performance camp -- Appendix J: hat scenario exercise -- Appendix K: sample historical performance camp final day activities -- Appendix l: night at the museum evaluation
Subjects
- Historical reenactments -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Historical reenactments -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- First person narrative -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Historical museums -- Educational aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- United States -- History -- Methodology -- Miscellanea.
- United States -- History, Local -- Miscellanea.
- History -- Methodology -- Miscellanea.