Museum theatre can be one of the most effective and rewarding programs your institution ever undertakes, and it can be one of the most challenging! Some institutions shy away from theatre because it seems too foreign to their mission, while others take it on enthusiastically but with little understanding of its demands. In Exploring Museum Theatre Tessa Bridal, one of the leading experts in the field, helps bridge these gaps and leads you along the path to a successful museum theatre program. She covers the philosophical and historical background including how to find your style, developing your first program, costs and funding, working with actors, directors, and other professionals, technical issues, evaluations, promotion, presenting difficult issues, collaborations, and historic interpretation. Appendixes and a bibliography round out this excellent reference.

Exploring Museum Theatre (American Association for State and Local History)

Bridal, Tessa

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Handbook for museums that wish to mount theatre productions.

Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design

As the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us “exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effective presentation of collections and information in exhibitions is an activity unique to museums, and it is through their exhibitions that the vast majority of people know museums.” Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design examines the impact of an integrated approach to exhibit design and development on the effective creation and support of live interpretation of exhibit messages and institutional mission. Bridal argues that the interpreters who bring these exhibitions, an institution’s mission, collections, and stories to life and the forefront of a visitor’s attention are just as vital a part of an institution’s public face, and that neglecting to give live interpretation an equal seat at the table impoverishes the ultimate visitor experience. Eight institutions collaborated with the author in examining the outcomes of approaching exhibit and live interpretation design and development collaboratively, the challenges of adding interpretation to spaces and exhibits not designed for it, and the guiding practices they have put into place. These institutions were: Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta, Minnesota History Center, The Missouri History Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, National Children’s Museum, The National Museum of American History, The Science Museum of Minnesota and The Science Museum of Virginia. Information was also shared by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

AltaMira Press

Science on Stage Anthology

Assn of Science Technology Ctr

Married at fifteen, “in loneliness and lust” as she herself puts it, Isabel Keating accidentally kills her abusive husband six years later and is forced to flee 18th century Ireland disguised as a man.  She boards the Bonaventure, a ship bound for America, only to discover, once she is on the high seas, that thanks to her ignorance of geography and the captain’s greed, she is not on her way north to Boston, as she had intended, but south to the Spanish colonies.  From the ship’s owner, Garzón Moreau, who is also on board, she learns of the perils and rewards of continuing south to the small coastal city of Montevideo and uses her small stock of money to invest in Garzon’s export ventures.  Like Isabel, he too is something of an outcast, albeit a wealthy one thanks to his ability to evade the Spanish Crown’s import and export regulations, and to his skills as a smuggler. They both have strong reasons to resist a relationship that goes any deeper. Garzon is half Indian and well aware that the Catholic Church forbids mixed marriages. And Isabel is a fugitive with a troubling secret.  They join forces with an unconventional priest whose determination to save the native people from slavery impels him to leave the safety of his mission near Montevideo to establish a new one inland, on territory controlled by Garzón. Their partnership provides them with freedom from close scrutiny from the Crown and the Church, while forcing them and the Indians who join them on their new venture to make choices that will affect not only their own lives, but the future of the Spanish colony itself.   Praise for Tessa Bridal The Uruguayan-born Bridal, now living in the US, is a writer to watch. -Kirkus Reviews Bridal's understated prose permits large moments to occur without melodrama, and small ones to build into potent revelations. -Publishers Weekly Bridal commands a style that is fresh yet restrained. -Minnesota Monthly Tessa Bridal brings a fresh voice to Latin American literature. -The New York Times Bridal...writes from a particular Latin American women's tradition that insists that the personal is political. ... Bridal's words traverse the landscape of the human spirit. -Revue: A weekly preview of Arts and Entertainment

River of Painted Birds

Literature & Fiction

United States

Rio de la Plata Editions

Casada a los quince años, «por soledad y lujuria» —en sus propias palabras—, Isabel Keating mata accidentalmente a su violento esposo seis años más tarde, y se ve forzada a fugarse de la Irlanda del siglo XVIII disfrazada de hombre.  A bordo del Buenaventura, un galeón en ruta a América, descubre ya en altamar que a causa de su ignorancia de la geografía y la codicia del capitán, el destino de la nave no es Boston como Isabel creía, sino las colonias españolas al sur del continente. El propietario de la nave, Garzón Moreau, también a bordo, le hace saber de los peligros y las posibles recompensas de continuar su viaje al sur hacia la pequeña ciudad costera de Montevideo, e Isabel decide invertir sus escasos ahorros en los negocios de exportación de Garzón.  Al igual que Isabel, Garzón es un marginado, pero posee riquezas materiales gracias a su habilidad de evadir las leyes de importación y exportación de la Corona española, y por ser un diestro contrabandista.  Ambos tienen poderosas razones para resistir la tentación de una relación personal más profunda.  Garzón es medio indígena y sabe que la Iglesia prohíbe los matrimonios mixtos.  Isabel es una fugitiva con un angustiante secreto. Garzón e Isabel unen fuerzas con un sacerdote poco convencional cuya determinación por salvar a los indígenas de la esclavitud lo impulsa a dejar atrás la seguridad de su misión cerca de Montevideo, para establecer un nuevo enclave tierra adentro, en un territorio controlado por Garzón.  Esta asociación los libera del escrutinio de la Corona y de la Iglesia, y a la vez los fuerza, tanto a ellos como a los indígenas que los acompañan en esta aventura, a tomar decisiones que afectarán no solo sus propias vidas, sino también el futuro de la propia colonia española.  

Río de los Pájaros Pintados (Spanish Edition)

A work of autobiographical fiction tells the story of Magda--a girl bewildered by the political upheaval in her native Uruguay--life under siege, and the subtle and overt results of her political activism.

Las cinco puntas del lucero (Spanish Edition)

Random House Espanol

Magda's childhood in the 1960s in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, is one of small pleasures: sitting beneath the poinsettia tree in her yard, meeting her friends by the banks of the Rio de la Plata, and learning the rules that her culture ordains for young women of privilege. But as Magda grows up, her comfortable world becomes frightening in ways that she has never imagined it could. As her government increasingly turns on its own people in both subtle and overt acts of terror, Magda's family and friends come under threat. Sent to the United States for a year of school, Magda realizes how her own passivity has contributed to the fear that now grips her country. The events she experiences after her return to Montevideo give her the courage to join the underground struggle against the government - a fateful decision that draws not only her, but all those around her, into unexpected danger.

The Tree of Red Stars

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

A work of autobiographical fiction tells the story of Magda--a girl bewildered by the political upheaval in her native Uraguay--life under seige, and the subtle and overt results of her political activism

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Exploring Museum Theatre (American Association for State and Local History)

Exploring Museum Theatre (American Association for State and Local History)

Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design

Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design

Science on Stage Anthology

River of Painted Birds

Río de los Pájaros Pintados (Spanish Edition)

Las cinco puntas del lucero (Spanish Edition)

The Tree of Red Stars

The Tree of Red Stars