Research Catalog

Title

Experience of spontaneity.

Author

Slade, Peter

Publication

Harlow, Longmans, 1968.

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Details

Description

xiii, 300 p. 16 plates, illus.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Improvisation (Acting)
• Spontaneity (Personality trait)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 297-300.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. 1: The nature of spontaneity -- Pt. 2: Descriptions of spontaneous experience: Search for joy -- Overture and beginners -- The public -- Blood sacrifice -- Kings and chemists -- Illegal and unrecognised drama in a preparatory school -- A Christmas fantasy with the family next door -- Dance drama on the downs and epic drama on horses -- Nelson and the battle of the Rhine -- Hockey in Regent Street, the fish's eye and the little yellow god at four in the morning -- Pt. 3: Spontaneity for others -- Acting-in-the-round; a sudden meeting -- Bernard Shaw and the moon on the yellow beacon or a midsummer night supreme -- The 'ideas game' and a good bit of blood -- The king of Pompatti, Podgebox and the Royal Balloon -- The legend of The lady of shalott, Mr. Growser of Toytown, Sir Jan and Lorna Doone -- Electric currant buns and the copper tap chaps -- Two dolphins, Caliban and a whale -- The genius and the mouse -- Jakes Heslop, the Injuns and his girl, a pageant on motor-bikes --^
• An agricultural fairy story -- Pt. 4: A new era: a short preface to descriptions subsequent to becoming full-time drama advisor -- The gallant captain and the beautiful Matron -- Youth ballet or murder on page four -- Unserious leading to serious -- Flood and mermaids to the rescue -- Umbrella, trees and the girl without a Mother -- The blue hat -- Deep theatre, despite the dancing cows -- Plumbottle institute and the corn that clapped -- Ice cream and boiling blood -- Blue glasses, milk churns and a gramophone -- The bird and the orange peel -- The musician who smiled -- Miracle for a blind girl -- Cold beginnings, which warmed up -- Vienna and the hungry musician -- Putting Mike together again -- Codfish and the chicken in striped pyjamas -- Youth and his dream of the future -- A hazardous adventure -- Golden moments -- Interpol and the electric roller skates -- Street gangs and bombs in the garden -- Grace and outburst -- Theatre-in-the-round, monsters and atomic treacle --^
• Television, ghosts and the city council.

ISBN

0582310288

LCCN

^^^71406801^//r85

OCLC

• 26481
• SCSB-11253438

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library