what makes storytelling a theatrical performance?

Question

characteristics of stor telling,in african pre-colonial societies

Answer 1

http://www.creativekeys.net/storytellingpower/article1071.html
and also, http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/leaders.html

I think these may help you. Good luck,friend.

Answer 2

Without getting into the detail of the Q, I offer this.

Certainly to "tell" a story can be theatrically presented, in the way the TELLER projects, embellishes, gets into character, and involves the listener.

My deeper feeling however is that a theatrical performance should TELL A STORY, engaging an audience, come off as believeable, and be relevant,,,even if politically.

One need not have a "stage" to be theatrical, or be a story teller, combining events with characterizations. Story telling historically is how we now have any history at all to read about and study.

Sadly perhaps is that in just story telling, much is lost or changed, generationally.

Rev. Steven

Answer 3

Any kind of storytelling becomes theatrical once there is an audience. Pure and simple.

Answer 4

a theatrical performance, by definition, needs only three elements
1 a special space
2 someone in that space doing something
3 others watching

Answer 5

I would read Ben Jonstone's books IMPRO and STORYTELLING. They were my bible when I started in rep theatres.
London, UK

Answer 6

The story of Me.