{"product_id":"9781552382134","title":"The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students","description":"The French Play : Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of French-language plays as models, Les Essif leads readers through the process of exploring drama and building a successful play with an eye toward applying re-creative strategies.\u003cp\u003eEssif promotes an array of new strategies for planning, producing, analyzing, and theorizing theatre, covering such essential topics as: exercises to produce a total, corporeal expression of the foreign language; performance semiotics; organization of rehearsal schedules; the collaborative assignment of roles; audience participation; publicity and promotion; taking the play on tour; and the evaluation of student actors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAimed at university drama students, The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students is also a must-have for scholars and teachers of performance and dramatic staging, foreign languages, English as a second language, and anyone else who requires a strong theoretical and critical approach to foreign language drama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049998106864,"sku":"9781552382134","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552382134_p0.jpg?v=1763751563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552382134","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}