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The Proscenium Cage

Author : Laurence Tocci
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043753
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Proscenium Cage written by Laurence Tocci and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of sample companies that produce theatre with and for prison inmates. It is a careful compilation of comprehensive case studies of three such producing companies. Based on personal interviews, newspaper reviews and articles, and other testimonials from participants, each case study catalogs the working processes of the given company, the conditions they faced working in the prison environment, and how the theatre-artists tailored their work to meet these conditions. Alongside the empirical study of the companies, the author has employed prevalent theories from criminology and penology, as well as applicable performance theory, to discuss the significance of the theatre work as a social phenomenon within the very specific culture of the prison. From these individual studies, the author draws conclusions about the potential importance and place theatre could have in the penal system. This book, a first study of its kind, is a groundbreaking and important contribution to theatre studies.

The Osier Cage

Author : Robert O. Evans
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813162629
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Osier Cage written by Robert O. Evans and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's plays, in terms of an Aristotelian critical category, which has been neglected in modern times. Inherent in his methodology is the assumption that Romeo and Juliet is best regarded as drama, not as pure poetry, though essentially it is the rhetorical brilliance of the poetry that is considered. Evans begins with an analysis of the important speeches of Romeo and Juliet and defines the controlling devices Shakespeare wove into them, especially oxymoron. He then follows with a discussion of the role of Friar Laurence, whom the author finds is a catalyst between the warring houses and between the lovers and the outer world of Verona. Evans concludes with an examination of Mercutio's famous Queen Mab speech, which, he points out, has an integral relationship to the structure of the tragedy as a whole. An analysis of the rhetorical devices of the play, Evans believes, demonstrates the thesis that the tragic effect of Romeo and Juliet is one of fulfillment, with the tragedy arising from the character of the protagonists rather than from circumstance.

Magical Titbits

Author :
Publisher : Alex Hess
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magical Titbits written by and published by Alex Hess. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Perfect Square

Author : Nancy M. Heinzen
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592139892
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Square written by Nancy M. Heinzen and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great cities and neighborhoods rise and fall, yet Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia has seized the imagination and envy of social climbers, urban planners, and novelists alike for two centuries. In The Perfect Square, Nancy Heinzen—a resident of Rittenhouse Square for over 40 years and an activist committed to its preservation—provides the first full-length social history of this public urban space. One of the five squares William Penn established when he founded the city, the southwest-situated Rittenhouse Square has transformed from a marshy plot surrounded by brickyards and workers’ shanties into the epicenter of Philadelphia high society. A keystone of center city Philadelphia, it was once home to great dynasties, elegant mansions, and grand dames of the Victorian era. Today it is lined with million-dollar high-rise condominiums, where nouveau-riche entrepreneurs and descendants of ethnic immigrants live side-by-side. Heinzen lovingly chronicles this urban space’s development and growth, illustrating that not only is Rittenhouse Square unique, but so is the combination of human events and relationships that have created and sustained it. Painstakingly researched and generously illustrated with black-and-white photos from public archives, The Perfect Square will appeal to lay readers interested in history, to professional historians and urban planners, and to the thousands of new residents who have settled on or near Rittenhouse Square since the dawn of the 21st century.

John Cage's Theatre Pieces

Author : William Fetterman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136645578
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book John Cage's Theatre Pieces written by William Fetterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is a blurring of the distinctions between music, dance, literature, art and everyday life. Here, William Fetterman examines the majority of those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content, beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952, and continuing through 1992. Much of the information in this study comes from previously undocumented material discovered among the unpublished scores and notes of Cage and his frequent collaborator David Tudor, as well as author's interviews with Cage and with individuals closely associated with his work, including David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Bonnie Bird, Mary Caroline Richards, and Ellsworth Snyder.

Later Magic

Author : Hoffmann (Professor)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Later Magic written by Hoffmann (Professor) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Race and Performance after Repetition

Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478009314
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Race and Performance after Repetition written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization, organization, measurement, and politics of race in performance. The contributors examine theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, photography, and other forms of performance in topics that range from the movement of boxer Joe Louis to George C. Wolfe's 2016 reimagining of the 1921 all-black musical comedy Shuffle Along to the relationship between dance, mourning, and black adolescence in Flying Lotus's music video “Never Catch Me.” Proposing a spectrum of coexisting racial temporalities that are not tethered to repetition, this collection reconsiders central theories in performance studies in order to find new understandings of race. Contributors. Joshua Chambers-Letson, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Nicholas Fesette, Patricia Herrera, Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Douglas A. Jones Jr., Mario LaMothe, Daphne P. Lei, Jisha Menon, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Post, Elizabeth W. Son, Shane Vogel, Catherine M. Young, Katherine Zien

Music, Song, Dance, and Theatre

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190642165
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Music, Song, Dance, and Theatre written by Melvin Delgado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performing arts is an emerging area of youth community practice that has tremendous potential for reaching and positively transforming urban youth lives and to do so in a socially just manner.

Scripting Detention

Author : Nandita Dinesh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629838
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Scripting Detention written by Nandita Dinesh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the author's creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborative experience of writing and staging such a play enacted by prisoners frames a discussion of larger social and political themes in the criminal justice system, and of the complexities of getting juveniles to engage with variously positioned mentors.

Theatre for Change

Author : Robert Landy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113700374X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Theatre for Change written by Robert Landy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Robert J. Landy's seminal text, Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre, Landy and Montgomery revisit this richly diverse and ever-changing field, identifying some of the best international practices in Applied Drama and Theatre. Through interviews with leading practitioners and educators such as Dorothy Heathcote, Jan Cohen Cruz, James Thompson, and Johnny Saldaña, the authors lucidly present the key concepts, theories and reflective praxis of Applied Drama and Theatre. As they discuss the changes brought about by practitioners in venues such as schools, community centres, village squares and prisons, Landy and Montgomery explore the field's ability to make meaning of a vast range of personal and social issues through the application of drama and theatre.

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227691
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How to Think Like Shakespeare written by Scott Newstok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern

Author : N. Herold
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137432675
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern written by N. Herold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice.

Roman Literature, Gender and Reception

Author : Donald Lateiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948135
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Roman Literature, Gender and Reception written by Donald Lateiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.

Performing Arts in Prisons

Author : Michael Balfour
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1789380162
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Performing Arts in Prisons written by Michael Balfour and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.

Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration

Author : Ashley E. Lucas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472511700
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration written by Ashley E. Lucas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration offers a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book examines the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope. Ashley Lucas's writing offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, performance analysis, travelogue, and personal experience as the child of an incarcerated father. Distinct examples of theatre performed in prisons are explored throughout the main text and also in a section of Critical Perspectives by international scholars and practitioners.

Prison Shakespeare

Author : Rob Pensalfini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137450215
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Prison Shakespeare written by Rob Pensalfini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. It provides a succinct history of the phenomenon and its spread before going on to explore one case study the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's (Australia) Shakespeare Prison Project in detail. The book then analyses the phenomenon from a number of perspectives, and evaluates a number of claims made about the outcomes of such programs, particularly as they relate to offender health and behaviour. Unlike previous works on the topic, which are largely individual case studies, this book focuses not only on Prison Shakespeare's impact on the prisoners who directly participate, but also on prison culture and on broader social attitudes towards both prisoners and Shakespeare.

The Applied Theatre Reader

Author : Tim Prentki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000202151
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Applied Theatre Reader written by Tim Prentki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal and Chantal Mouffe. This new edition brings the field fully up to date with the breadth of applied theatre practice in the twenty-first century, adding essays on playback theatre, digital technology, work with indigenous practitioners, inter-generational practice, school projects and contributors from South America, Australia and New Zealand. The Reader divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation of issues in applied theatre whilst also acknowledging the multi-disciplinary nature of its subject, crossing fields like theatre in educational settings, prison theatre, community performance, theatre in conflict resolution, interventionist theatre and theatre for development. A new lexicon of Applied Theatre and further reading for every part will equip readers with the ideal tools for studying this broad and varied field. This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change.