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Author : Gerard Peter NeCastro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Pain and Laughter written by Gerard Peter NeCastro and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267787X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness written by Hannah Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Author : Jessica L. Hagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786825112
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Queens of Sheba written by Jessica L. Hagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Then they give unrequested information about a gap year, in an orphanage, in The Congo, even though I'm from St Lucia and I don't like children! Turned away from a nightclub for being “too black”, four women take to the stage with their own explosive true stories. The music and the misogyny, the dancing and the drinking, the women and the (white) men. Loosely based on the DSRKT nightspot incident of 2015, Queens of Sheba tells the hilarious, moving and uplifting stories of four passionate Black women battling everyday misogynoir – where sexism meets racism.
Author : Oliver Double
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408177706
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Getting the Joke written by Oliver Double and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a “dull” page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in Theatre and Performance Comedy is changing: stand-up comedians routinely sell out stadia, their audience-figures swollen by panel-show appearances and much-followed Twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the smaller clubs are filling up, with audiences as well as aspirants. How can we make sense of it all? This new edition of Getting the Joke gives an insider's look at the spectrum of modern comedy, re-examining the world of stand-up in the internet age. Drawing on his acclaimed first edition, Oliver Double focuses in greater detail on the US scene and its comedians (such as David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Demetri Martin and Margaret Cho); the 'DIY' comedy circuit and its celebrated apostles and visionaries, from Josie Long to Stewart Lee; the growing importance of the solo stand-up show; the role played by Twitter (including an interview with the organiser of the world's first comedy gig on Twitter), and the driving force that is the TV guest slot, be it on Mock the Week or Live at the Apollo. With expanded sections on joke construction, as well as ways to challenge the audience, and a host of new and updated exercises to guide the aspiring comedian, this new edition of Getting the Joke is the only book to combine the history of stand-up comedy with an analysis of the elements and methods that go into its creation. Featuring a range of interviews with working comedians – from circuit veterans to new kids on the block – combined with the author's vast experience, this is a must read for any aspiring stand-up comedian.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355103
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 16 written by Jay Malarcher and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-09-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy Tonight! in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.
Author : L. Peacock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137438975
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Slapstick and Comic Performance written by L. Peacock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : John Lyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521244935
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Valle-Inclan written by John Lyon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Spanish dramatist RamØn del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). John Lyon shows that Valle has links with two avant-garde movements: the turn of the century Symbolism associated with Maeterlinck and Yeats, and the anti-tragic values which surfaced in the 1920s and culminated in Absurdism.
Author : Gina Masucci MacKenzie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theatre of the Real written by Gina Masucci MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major theatre figures of the twentieth century. Gina Masucci MacKenzie's work engages theatrical text and performance in dialogue with the Lacanian Real, so as to re-envision modern theatre as the cultural site where author, actor, and audience come into direct contact with personal and collective traumas. By showing how a transgressively free subject may be formed through theatrical experience, MacKenzie concludes that modern theatre can liberate the individual from the socially constructed self. The Theatre of the Real revises views of modern theatre by demonstrating how it can lead to a collaborative effort required for innovative theatrical work. By foregrounding Yeats's "dancer" plays, the author shows how these intimate pieces contribute to the historical development of musical as well as modern theatre. Beckett's universal dramas then pave the way for Sondheim's postmodern cacophonies of idea and spirit as they introduce comic abjection into modernism's tragic mode. This exciting work from a new author will leave readers with fresh insight to theatrical performance and its necessity in our lives.
Author : G. White
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010746
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Audience Participation in Theatre written by G. White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new approach, illustrated by examples from diverse participatory performances.
Author : Michael Wall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783194197
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Women Laughing written by Michael Wall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many fleeting moments when either Colin or Tony want to smother the laughs of their wives. The two couples fight for every inch of their lives, from the garden of a house in Ealing to the grounds of a mental asylum. Women Laughinghas been performed at the Royal Exchange Manchester, the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, the Palace Theatre Watford and was toured in 2000 by Not The National Theatre.
Author : Abílio Almeida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040154352
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Laughter written by Abílio Almeida and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is laughter a sin? Or is it man’s best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day. Engaging with a range of thought from Plato to Nietzsche, it moves from classical to modern thought, considering the changing emotional climate of societies – including the postmodern "dictatorship of happiness" – and the role played by the technological changes of the last century in shaping our interpretation of laughter. A broad, historical study of the physical and emotional aspects of laughter, as well as its social role, A Cultural History of Laughter will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and cultural studies, among other fields of knowledge.
Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083212
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor written by Magda Romanska and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.
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Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285165
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor written by and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Grossmith
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448130654
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Stop What You’re Doing and Read...To Make You Laugh: The Diary of a Nobody & Three Men in a Boat written by George Grossmith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books. THE DIARY OF A NOBODY Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy, nor the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee... George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century. THREE MEN IN A BOAT ILLUSTRATED BY VIC REEVES What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans, kettles and tins of pineapple. Jerome K. Jerome's delightful novel has kept readers smiling for years and his prose has found a perfect partner in Vic Reeves's glorious and witty illustrations.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Fun for the Million, Or, The Laughing Philosopher written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Caston
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ISBN 13 : 0198851057
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 56 written by Victor Caston and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "'Have you seen the latest OSAP?' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophists, on Stoics, Epicureans, or Sceptics, on Roman philosophers or Greek Neoplatonists, you are liable to find OSAP articles now dominant in the bibliography of much serious published work in your particular subject: not safe to miss." - Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University "OSAP was founded to provide a place for long pieces on major issues in ancient philosophy. In the years since, it has fulfilled this role with great success, over and over again publishing groundbreaking papers on what seemed to be familiar topics and others surveying new ground to break. It represents brilliantly the vigour--and the increasingly broad scope--of scholarship in ancient philosophy, and shows us all how the subject should flourish." - M.M. McCabe, King's College London
