The Fool In European Theatre

Download The Fool In European Theatre full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Fool In European Theatre ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Fool in European Theatre

Author : T. Prentki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230357504
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Fool in European Theatre by : T. Prentki

Download or read book The Fool in European Theatre written by T. Prentki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.

Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Author : Hanna Teichler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805399268
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Carnivalizing Reconciliation by : Hanna Teichler

Download or read book Carnivalizing Reconciliation written by Hanna Teichler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.

History of European Drama and Theatre

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415180603
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis History of European Drama and Theatre by : Erika Fischer-Lichte

Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

Disobedient Theatre

Author : Chris Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350014524
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Disobedient Theatre by : Chris Johnston

Download or read book Disobedient Theatre written by Chris Johnston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective, powerful and resonant? Drawing from both theory and practice, and informed by conversations with recognized practitioners from across the UK, this book provides answers and makes an impassioned call for artists to reimagine, question and disrupt. Divided into two parts, 'In the World' and 'In the Room', the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a 'disobedient' culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners. In Part One the author offers a lexicon defining the spirit and impulse which characterises disobedient theatre: he describes the principles, the strategies, and the voice of the artist, before suggesting ways to survive as a creative practitioner. Part Two illustrates how these principles may be worked out in practice when creating new work, with the hands-on approaches supplemented by games and exercises to assist in generating material. Disobedient Theatre is for all those who have an interest in what makes theatre powerful, disturbing or even life-changing. It is a book for artists, thinkers, activists and all who believe in the function of art to offer new possibilities and to change and inform the evolution of society.

Contemporary European Theatre Directors

Author : Maria M. Delgado
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135164665
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Contemporary European Theatre Directors by : Maria M. Delgado

Download or read book Contemporary European Theatre Directors written by Maria M. Delgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come' - Michael Billington Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during this period, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s. The featured directors are: Calixto Bieito, Piotr Borowski, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Castorf, Patrice Chéreau, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Kristian Frédric, Rodrigo García, Jan Lauwers, Christoph Marthaler, Simon McBurney, Daniel Mesguich, Katie Mitchell, Ariane Mnouchkine, Thomas Ostermeier, Patrice Pavis, Silviu Purcărete and Peter Sellars. Travelling from London and Craiova to St. Petersburg and Madrid, the book examines directors working with classics, new writing, and new collaborative theatre forms. Each chapter is written by a specialist in European theatre and provides a detail critique of production styles. The directors themselves provide contributions and interviews to this multi-authored work, which unites the many and varied voices of European theatre in one coherent volume.

European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900

Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351938304
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900 by : Jim Davis

Download or read book European Theatre Performance Practice, 1750–1900 written by Jim Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice from 1750 to 1900. The selected topics focus on acting and performance, staging (including set design and lighting), and audiences, and are approached with a broad perspective as well as with in-depth, focussed analysis. The volume captures the rich, dynamic and variegated nature of European theatre throughout the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and provides a carefully selected body of significant texts on this important period of theatre history.

Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Author : Rowan Mackenzie
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390635
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Social Engagement by : Rowan Mackenzie

Download or read book Shakespeare and Social Engagement written by Rowan Mackenzie and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the complicated and vibrant encounters between a canonical cultural force and work that frequently characterizes itself as inclusive and egalitarian.

Eastern European Theatre After the Iron Curtain

Author : Kalina Stefanova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134425627
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Eastern European Theatre After the Iron Curtain by : Kalina Stefanova

Download or read book Eastern European Theatre After the Iron Curtain written by Kalina Stefanova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new survey of Eastern European theater after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Explores all aspects of theater, from playwriting, directing and acting, to repertoire creation and theatre management. Uses material never previously published on theatre life during the Communist years. Compares theater before and after the political changes in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland,Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. Chapters begin with introductions by well-known theatre professionals or lively interviews with a major directors or playwrights - including Yury Lyubimov, Václav Havel, Andrei Sherban and Ismail Kadare.

Print Culture at the Crossroads

Author : Elizabeth Dillenburg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462341
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Print Culture at the Crossroads by : Elizabeth Dillenburg

Download or read book Print Culture at the Crossroads written by Elizabeth Dillenburg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the importance of printing in early-modern Central Europe, revealing a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

The Applied Theatre Artist

Author : Kay Hepplewhite
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303047268X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Applied Theatre Artist by : Kay Hepplewhite

Download or read book The Applied Theatre Artist written by Kay Hepplewhite and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of ‘responsivity’ to make visible their unique expertise. In-depth investigation of practice combines with theorisation to provide a fresh view of the work of artists and facilitators. Case studies are drawn from community contexts: with women, mental health service users, refugees, adults with a learning disability, older people in care, and young people in school. Common skills and qualities are given a vocabulary to help define applied theatre work, such as awareness, anticipation, adaptation, attunement, and responsiveness. The Applied Theatre Artist is of scholarly, practical, and educational interest. The book offers detailed analysis of how skilled theatre artists make in-action decisions within socially engaged participatory projects. Rich description of in-session activity reveals what workshop facilitators actually do and how they think, offering a rare focus in applied theatre.

Austerity and the Public Role of Drama

Author : Victor Merriman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030032604
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Austerity and the Public Role of Drama by : Victor Merriman

Download or read book Austerity and the Public Role of Drama written by Victor Merriman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit culture, by which austerity erodes life-in-common in favour of narcissistic performances of life-in-public. It argues for a social order committed to human flourishing and deliberative democracy, as a counterweight to the political economy of austerity. It demonstrates, using examples from England, Ireland, Italy, and the USA, that drama and the academy pursue shared humane concerns; the one, a critical art form, the other, a social enabler of critical thought and progressive ideas. A need for dialogue with emergent forms of collective consciousness, new democratic practices and institutions, shapes a manifesto for critical performance, which invites universities and cultural workers to join other social actors in imagining and enabling ethical lives-in-common.

Theatres of Learning Disability

Author : Matt Hargrave
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137504390
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theatres of Learning Disability by : Matt Hargrave

Download or read book Theatres of Learning Disability written by Matt Hargrave and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize 2016 This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy. Hargrave provocatively realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have earned the right to full critical review.

Performance and Civic Engagement

Author : Ananda Breed
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319665170
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performance and Civic Engagement by : Ananda Breed

Download or read book Performance and Civic Engagement written by Ananda Breed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping discourses of politics, cultural geography and performance, investigating how and why physical and digital spaces can be analysed and utilised to develop new art forms that challenge traditional notions of how performance is political and how politics are performative. Across three sections - Politicising Communities, Applying Digital Agency and Performing Landscapes and Identities - the ten chapters and three interviews cover a wide variety of international perspectives, all informed by innovative ways of addressing the current crisis of social fragmentation through performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and practice of new media, this book is of significance to readers from a broad set of academic disciplines, including politics, sociology, geography, and performance studies.

Applied Theatre: Understanding Change

Author : Kelly Freebody
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319781782
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Applied Theatre: Understanding Change by : Kelly Freebody

Download or read book Applied Theatre: Understanding Change written by Kelly Freebody and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value. Applied theatre is a well-established field focused on the social application of the arts in a range of contexts including schools, prisons, residential aged care and community settings. The increased uptake of applied theatre in these contexts requires increased analysis and understanding of indications of success and value. This volume provides critical commentary and questions regarding issues associated with developing, delivering and evaluating applied theatre programs. Part 1 of the volume presents a discussion of the ways the concept of change is presented to and by funding bodies, practitioners, participants, researchers and policy makers to discover and analyse the relationships between applied theatre practice, transformative intent, and evaluation. Part 2 of the volume offers perspectives from key authors in the field which extend and contextualize the discussion by examining key themes and practice-based examples.

Persistence of Folly

Author : Joel B. Lande
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727133
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Persistence of Folly by : Joel B. Lande

Download or read book Persistence of Folly written by Joel B. Lande and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society. Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande’s work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool.

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30

Author : Chase Bringardner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081737017X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30 by : Chase Bringardner

Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30 written by Chase Bringardner and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how theatre's engagement with politics changes over time

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance

Author : Tim Prentki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351120123
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance by : Tim Prentki

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance written by Tim Prentki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.