Since this is the month of love, the Library are thinking about all the different types of love that are out there - not to mention how we can love ourselves better!
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Let us inspire you!
Come and have a look at our displays including our selection of self-help books, or use our eResources listed below!
Drama Online has over 500 plays looking at the theme of love (use advanced search, and you can limit your results by theme). How about ...
A Brief History of Women / Alan Ayckbourn
A Brief History of Women charts the life of Anthony Spates: from his first job as an adolescent footman at a country manor house through to his retirement as manager of the hotel the manor house became. Over the course of six decades, the play follows him and the remarkable women he has loved, left and lost over the years.
Roles: Male (13) , Female (11) , Neutral (0)
Hushabye Mountain / Jonathan Harvey
Danny is a young man, waiting to be let into heaven. There seems to be some difficulty about it, but Judy Garland reassures him as she passes by in a boat full of stars. Away from the dreamlike and unexpected version of the afterlife, the people who were closest to Danny struggle with his death from AIDS. Hushabye Mountain reveals a world full of love, pain, laughter and friendship.
Roles: Male (6) , Female (7) , Neutral (1)
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Be mindful
We have Mindfulness e-books ... try Mindfulness for Dummies or Mindfulness in the Academy
Enjoy a ballet or opera
Watch full length ballets and operas about love by composers who struggled with mental health on Medici TV ...
Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris)
Or Berlioz's Béatrice et Benedict - a whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare’s great comedy Much Ado About Nothing, on the stage of Glyndebourne in 2016.
Be as kind to yourself as you are to your friends
We've picked a few articles and book chapters looking at mental health and the performing arts - if this interests you, why not use our catalogue plus search to find more?
- Performing Depression: The Workman Theatre Project and the Making of Joy. A Musical. About Depression (Kirsty Johnston) Joy was a result of a unique five-year development and dramaturgical process which involved many artists and consultants. The production sought to engage a wide public audience in rethinking depression, antidepressant use in society, and the way in which depression is performed.
- Music Performance Anxiety in Instrumental Music Students: A Multiple Case Study of Teacher Perspectives (Crystal Sieger) The purpose of this multiple case study was to investigate the strategies and methods utilized by middle and high school music teachers to address the music performance anxiety experienced by their students.
- Coping with Stress (Linda Hamilton) which looks at ways of how ballet dancers can deal with common stresses during training, performance, overuse of injuries and problems associated with dieting.
- Staging Schizophrenia: The Workman Theatre Project and Terry Watada's Vincent. (Kirsty Johnston) which discusses the representation of mental illness in Terry Watada's play “Vincent".
- Mindful Music Listening as a Potential Treatment for Depression (Kristen J. Eckhardt and Julie A. Dinsmore) which proposes a combined intervention called Mindful Music Listening, during which clients with depression use mindfulness skills while listening to music to notice, label, discuss, and learn to manage their emotions.
- Alexander Street Press has even got an album entitled Stress Coping Music!
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