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Author : Brad Garcia
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1684709407
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Dead Theater written by Brad Garcia and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you found out you had just died? Where do you go when you die? Who would you find on the other side of life?
Author : Jeehee Hong
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082485540X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Theater of the Dead written by Jeehee Hong and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eleventh-century China, both the living and the dead were treated to theatrical spectacles. Chambers designed for the deceased were ornamented with actors and theaters sculpted in stone, molded in clay, rendered in paint. Notably, the tombs were not commissioned for the scholars and officials who dominate the historical record of China but affluent farmers, merchants, clerics—people whose lives and deaths largely went unrecorded. Why did these elites furnish their burial chambers with vivid representations of actors and theatrical performances? Why did they pursue such distinctive tomb-making? In Theater of the Dead, Jeehee Hong maintains that the production and placement of these tomb images shed light on complex intersections of the visual, mortuary, and everyday worlds of China at the dawn of the second millennium. Assembling recent archaeological evidence and previously overlooked historical sources, Hong explores new elements in the cultural and religious lives of middle-period Chinese. Rather than treat theatrical tomb images as visual documents of early theater, she calls attention to two largely ignored and interlinked aspects: their complex visual forms and their symbolic roles in the mortuary context in which they were created and used. She introduces carefully selected examples that show visual and conceptual novelty in engendering and engaging dimensions of space within and beyond the tomb in specifically theatrical terms. These reveal surprising insights into the intricate relationship between the living and the dead. The overarching sense of theatricality conveys a densely socialized vision of death. Unlike earlier modes of representation in funerary art, which favored cosmological or ritual motifs and maintained a clear dichotomy between the two worlds, these visual practices show a growing interest in conceptualizing the sphere of the dead within the existing social framework. By materializing a “social turn,” this remarkable phenomenon constitutes a tangible symptom of middle-period Chinese attempting to socialize the sacred realm. Theater of the Dead is an original work that will contribute to bridging core issues in visual culture, history, religion, and drama and theater studies.
Author : George Reinblatt
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573651396
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Evil Dead written by George Reinblatt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Sam Raimi¿s 80s cult classic films, EVIL DEAD tells the tale of 5 college kids who travel to a cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force. And although it may sound like a horror, it's not! The songs are hilariously campy and the show is bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends take a weekend getaway at abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, friends turn into Candarian Demons, boy fights until dawn to survive. As musical mayhem descends upon this sleepover in the woods, ¿camp¿ takes on a whole new meaning with uproarious numbers like ¿All the Men in my Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,¿ ¿Look Who¿s Evil Now¿ and ¿Do the Necronomicon.¿
Author : Irwin Shaw
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822201656
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Bury the Dead written by Irwin Shaw and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1963 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unnamed war, six dead soldiers refuse to allow themselves to be buried in the trench dug by two of their buddies, causing consternation among the army's generals.
Author : Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864700275
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Theaters written by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In designing a theater, an architect must design a hub for the activities of actors, dancers, and musicians of every genre, and appease directors, producers, and the all-important public. This successful title has proved its practicality as a guide to building the modern theater, concert hall and cultural center designed for academic, civic and private use. Now in its first reprint edition, it has also been published in Chinese, and has proved a valuable resource for both architects and commissioning agents. The expertise of Hardy Holzman and Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA) is demonstrated time and again throughout this book, with color photography, and essays by performers, curators, artistic directors, actors, lighting designers, academic musicians, playwrights, and dancers amongst others. This book showcases their work through new buildings, old theater renovations and older building refitted as theaters.
Author : Nat Brandt
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080932721X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Chicago Death Trap written by Nat Brandt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.
Author : Marjorie Susan Venit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521806596
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria written by Marjorie Susan Venit and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the life of the ancient city almost from 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. They attest to the diversity and the cohesion of the community, its population's wealth and love of luxury, sense of theatricality and pomp, and cosmopolitan attitude. Alexandria's monumental tombs confirm the changing ethos of the city's populace, as the tombs provide the stage on which the city's continuity and shifting concerns are played out.
Author : Mark Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350315958
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Theatre and Death written by Mark Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance, or English literature students with an interest in tragedy.
Author : Nachoem M. Wijnberg
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 0692620621
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Jews written by Nachoem M. Wijnberg and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Third Reich. Suspecting that the Frankfurt School, headed by Vice-Chancellor Walter Benjamin, has masterminded this takeover, he dispatches two Jewish actors, Salomon Maimon and Natalia Goncharova, to investigate the situation in the hope of uncovering the extent of the Jewish conspiracy.Upon arrival in Berlin, Maimon and Goncharova are received by Benjamin, who introduces them to Heidegger. The latter has stopped speaking to anyone except his mother since his rise to power, and Benjamin holds long speeches on the history of theater, the law, God, the royal gods and the old goddesses. Eventually, prodded by his mother, Heidegger marries Goncharova, surrounded by a merry audience.The novel ends on a plain somewhere between Moscow and Berlin, where the final battle for Jerusalem is being waged. In front of the entrance of a camp, Maimon and Benjamin are joined by a group of old Jews arriving by train, bringing the news of Stalin's death by circumcision. They reenact scenes from the Old Testament while Jerusalem is burning. Did the world to come finally arrive?
Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 155584894X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the “Notable Books of 1967” by the American Library Association.
Author : Brent Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582218
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead written by Brent Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group’s live performances showing how Garcia brought about catharsis through dance by leading songs of grief, mortality, and ironic fate in a collective theatrical context. This musical, literary, and historical analysis of thirty-five songs with tragic dimensions performed by Garcia in concert with the Grateful Dead illustrates the syncretic approach and acute editorial ear he applied in adapting songs of Robert Hunter, Bob Dylan, and folk tradition. Tragically ironic situations in which Garcia found himself when performing these songs are revealed, including those related to his opiate addiction and final decline. This book examines Garcia’s musical craftsmanship and the Grateful Dead’s collective art in terms of the mystery-rites of ancient Greece, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Dionysus, 20th century American music rooted in New Orleans, Hermann Hesse’s Magic Theater, and the Greek Theatre at Berkeley, offering a clear prospect on an often misunderstood phenomenon. Featuring interdisciplinary analysis, close attention to musical and poetic strategies, and historical and critical contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Popular Music, Musicology, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, as well as to the Grateful Dead’s avid listeners.
Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547345739
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Sabbath's Theater written by Philip Roth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing new novel. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey is now in his mid-sixties and besieged by ghosts - of his mother, his beloved brother, his vanished first wife, his mistress of thirteen years. Bereft and grieving, he embarks on a turbulent journey back into his past, one that brings him to the brink of madness and extinction. But no matter how ardently he courts death, he is too exuberantly alive to succeed at dying. Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. This book, which presents Philip Roth at the peak of his powers, is sur
Author : Henry Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472576225
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.
Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140268
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Theatermachine written by Magda Romanska and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context is an in-depth, multidisciplinary compendium of essays that examine Kantor’s work through the prism of postmemory and trauma theory and in relation to Polish literature, Jewish culture, and Yiddish theater as well as the Japanese, German, French, Polish, and American avant-garde. Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory of postdramatic theater and contemporary developments in critical theory—particularly Bill Brown’s thing theory, Bruno Latour’s actor network theory, and posthumanism—provide a previously unavailable vocabulary for discussion of Kantor’s theater.
Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423141202
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book No More Dead Dogs written by Gordon Korman and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Gordon Korman's middle-grade favorite, now with a fresh look! Wallace Wallace won’t lie, even if it means detention. And after he handed in a scorching book report of the classic novel, Old Shep, My Pal, detention is just what he’s been handed. He is sure he’s done nothing wrong: he hated every minute of that book, especially when the dog dies in the end! Why do dogs always die at the end? Wallace refuses to do a rewrite of his report, so his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play of Old Shep, My Pal, forces him go to the rehearsals to teach him a lesson on why the story is the way it is. Surrounded by theater kids who are apprehensive of him, Wallace sets out to prove himself. But not by changing his mind. Instead, he changes the play into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with Rollerblades and a moped!
Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810106655
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Theater of Essence written by Jan Kott and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland.
Author : Sidney Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Dead End written by Sidney Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
