Kelly Hunter

Shakespeare's Heartbeat (eBook, ePUB)

Drama Games for Autistic People

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This updated and revised edition of Shakespeare's Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeare's most popular plays designed for autistic people of all ages.

The original games of heartbeats, eye contact and spatial awareness were created at the Glebe School, Beckenham, with a group of twelve autistic teenagers who met and played with Kelly Hunter once a week over three years, 2002-2005. This second edition brings the book up to date with the additional knowledge Kelly Hunter has gained since then as the founding artistic director of Flute Theatre, the world's only Shakespearean troupe to focus on the needs of autistic audiences. The book includes the following:

• A new chapter dedicated to performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest with autistic audiences, including Hunter's adapted, interactive performance texts of both plays.
• A new resource for playing with younger autistic children and their families.
• A new resource for playing with those who require a lower demand approach.
• A new chapter with targets and techniques to understand the autism puzzle more clearly.
• New games based on A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest which have been created over the last ten years, in addition to the original games detailed in the first edition.

This book provides an indispensable learning tool for theatre practitioners, drama students, applied theatre students, teachers, autistic people and their families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040400449
• Artikelnr.: 74869086

Autorenporträt

Kelly Hunter is an award-winning actor, director, and educator. She is the creator of the Hunter Heartbeat Method. Kelly has worked in the theatre for over forty years, acting notably with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the highly acclaimed Vesturport. She founded Flute Theatre in 2014 in order to create original and unique productions of Shakespeare. She has adapted and directed ten productions of Shakespeare for the company, including four unique shows for autistic audiences. In 2019 she was awarded an MBE for her services to theatre and in 2024 she received an honorary degree from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robin Post
Introduction
Playing the games/Using the book
Part one A Midsummer Night's Dream
Chapter 1 Games to begin
Chapter 2 Fairyland
Chapter 3 Dreams
Chapter 4 The Mechanicals
Chapter 5 The Lovers
Chapter 6 Darkness of night
Part two The Tempest
Chapter 7 Caliban
Chapter 8 Ariel
Chapter 9 Miranda and Ferdinand
Chapter 10 The clowns
Chapter 11 Magic
Chapter 12 Resource for playing with the children
Afterword
Epilogue by Marc Tasse

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Foreword by Robin Post

Introduction

Playing the games/Using the book

Part one A Midsummer Night's Dream

Chapter 1 Games to begin

Chapter 2 Fairyland

Chapter 3 Dreams

Chapter 4 The Mechanicals

Chapter 5 The Lovers

Chapter 6 Darkness of night

Part two The Tempest

Chapter 7 Caliban

Chapter 8 Ariel

Chapter 9 Miranda and Ferdinand

Chapter 10 The clowns

Chapter 11 Magic

Chapter 12 Resource for playing with the children

Afterword

Epilogue by Marc Tasse

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"For me - working in a special school - there is so much material here that is of huge benefit to children who struggle with social interaction. This should be on the shelf of every SEN teacher as there are activities here that would work on many levels for children both verbal and non-verbal, ASD or not." - Lucy Ellen Rix, Teaching Drama

"For me - working in a special school - there is so much material here that is of huge benefit to children who struggle with social interaction. This should be on the shelf of every SEN teacher as there are activities here that would work on many levels for children both verbal and non-verbal, ASD or not." - Lucy Ellen Rix, Teaching Drama