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The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre

Author : Colin Chambers
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 1350016187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre written by Colin Chambers and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the celebrated Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre is an A to Z of modern theatre, from the late 19th century to today, featuring short entries and in-depth articles contributed by a unique team of expert academics and celebrated practitioners. This authoritative and accessible encyclopedia consists of over 2,500 entries and articles by expert international contributors. Existing entries written by well-known performers including Jessica Lange, Michael Gambon, Hal Prince, Peter Brook, Janet Suzman and Billie Whitelaw, as well as notes on practice from craft specialists like Cicely Berry (Voice), Phil Dale (Prop Making), John Haynes (Photography), John Leonard (Sound), Litz Pisk (Movement), and Jennifer Tipton (Lighting) are supplemented by extensive revisions and new entries including: · Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues, with new entries on technology in theatre, immersive theatre, verbatim theatre and testimonial theatre; · Surveys of theatre institutions, countries and genres, with fresh examinations of National Theatres of Scotland and Wales, Punchdrunk, Frantic Assembly, Performing Arts Center at World Trade Center, Ontroerend Goed, and theatre in Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet era; · Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; including additional profiles of debbie tucker green, Simon Stephens, Annie Baker, Maxine Peake, Brian Dennehy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Rylance, Katie Mitchell, Vicky Featherstone, Anna D. Shapiro, Ivo van Hove, Mark Thompson and Catherine Martin; · Articles by leading professionals on theatrical crafts, skills and disciplines with newly-commissioned pieces from Maxine Peake on performing Caryl Churchill; Maria Friedman on musical theatre; Robert Lepage on theatre technology; Scott Graham (Frantic Assembly) on devising; Rae Smith on making puppets for performance and Neil Bartlett on site-specific work. Combining factual and biographical entries with reflective articles by established practitioners, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre gives the reader more texture and insight than any other encyclopedia of theatre. It is an essential purchase for college and university libraries around the world.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408134802
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights written by Christopher Innes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472503430
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays written by David Adjmi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography

Author : Claire Cochrane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350034312
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography by : Claire Cochrane

Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography written by Claire Cochrane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.

The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre

Author : Jonathan Law
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140814591X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre written by Jonathan Law and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre is an essential reference tool and companion for anyone interested in the theatre and theatre-going. Containing over 2500 entries it covers the international spectrum of theatre with particular emphasis on the UK and USA. With biographical information on playwrights, actors and directors, entries on theatres and theatre companies, explanation of technical terms and theatrical genres, and synopses of major plays, this is an authoritative, trustworthy and comprehensive compendium. Included are: synopses of 500 major plays biographical entries on hundreds of playwrights, actors, directors and producers definitions of nearly 200 genres and movements entries on over 100 key characters from plays information about more than 250 theatres and companies Unlike similar products, The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre avoids a dry, technical approach with its sprinkling of anecdotal asides and fascinating trivia, such as how Michael Gambon gave his name to a corner of a racing track following an incident on BBC's Top Gear programme, and under 'advice to actors' the sage words of Alec Guinness: 'First wipe your nose and check your flies', and the equally wise guidance from the master of his art, Noël Coward: 'Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.' As a companion to everything from the main stage to the fringes of theatrical fact and folklore, this will prove an irresistible book to all fans of the theatre.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781474260626
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays by : David Adjmi

Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays written by David Adjmi and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408159678
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights written by Martin Middeke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119000
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

The Theatre of Revolt

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Revolt written by Robert Brustein and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Author : Sean Metzger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135012317X
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre written by Sean Metzger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies.

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

Author : Bertie Ferdman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350057609
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art written by Bertie Ferdman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781408128435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This anthology of six of the most commonly studied and revived Naturalist plays from the European repertoire offers a unique compendium that will serve as required reading for drama courses and is ideal for theatre practitioners and fans. The selected plays perfectly reflect the formal and geographical diversity of Naturalist theatre as well as its major philosophical, political and theatrical preoccupations. A critical introduction by Dr Chris Megson contextualises the emergence of Naturalist theatre in the late nineteenth century, identifying its principal aims and methods; provides an analysis of the selected plays, mapping their key preoccupations, and ends by considering Naturalism's enduring legacy and resonance today.

The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women

Author : Dee Cannon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783199407
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women written by Dee Cannon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today's leading contemporary playwrights. The monologues contain a diverse range of quirky and memorable characters that cross cultural and historical boundaries, and comes in a brand new format, with a notes page next to each speech, acting as an actor's workbook as well as a monologue resource.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408123347
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights written by Aleks Sierz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material

The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Men

Author : Chrys Salt
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Men written by Chrys Salt and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of speeches drawn from the great landmark plays of the twentieth century.

Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays

Author : Alison Forsyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays written by Alison Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Peter Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136118047
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Peter Nagy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.