Telling history : a manual for performers and presenters of first-person narratives

Telling history : a manual for performers and presenters of first-person narratives / Joyce M. Thierer.

Dramatic impersonations accompanied by informed discussions are becoming increasingly popular methods of educating visitors to museums and historical sites. This is the first book to provide step-by-step instructions for how to conceive, plan, publicize, present, and pay for such historical presenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thierer, Joyce M., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2010.
Series:American Association for State and Local History book series.
Subjects:
Historical reenactments > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Historical reenactments > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Historical drama, American > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Historical drama > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
First person narrative > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
One-person shows (Performing arts) > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Performing arts > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
History > Methodology > Miscellanea.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
First person narrative
Historical drama
Historical drama, American
Historical reenactments
History > Methodology
Methodology
One-person shows (Performing arts)
Performing arts
United States > History > Methodology > Miscellanea.
United States > History, Local > Miscellanea.
United States
Handbooks and manuals
History
Local history
Trivia and miscellanea
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, or, "Read before dissembling and the story of this book"
  • The significance of historical performance
  • How to choose a historic figure to portray
  • Researching for a first-person narrative
  • Creating your script
  • Telling history
  • The business of doing freelance historical performance
  • Enhancing museums and historic sites with historical performance
  • Dreams and plans
  • Appendixes. How to create a first-person narrative
  • Structuring the first-person narrative script
  • Setting and clothing
  • Sample contract
  • Sample invoice
  • Youth registration forms
  • Local arrangements for workshops
  • Ride into history's historical performance definitions.

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