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Author : Hiram Kelly Moderwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Today written by Hiram Kelly Moderwell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299933
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book French Theatre Today written by Edward Baron Turk and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City’s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month’s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended within contexts and timeframes that stretch backward and forward over a number of years, he reveals French theatre during the first decade of the twenty-first century to be remarkably vital, inclined toward both innovation and concern for its audience, and as open to international influence as it is respectful of national tradition. French Theatre Today provides a seamless mix of critical analysis with lively description, theoretical considerations with reflexive remarks by the theatremakers themselves, and matters of current French and American cultural politics. In the first part, “New York,” Turk offers close-ups of French theatre works singled out during the ACT FRENCH festival for their presumed attractiveness to American audiences and critics. The second part, “Paris,” depicts a more expansive range of French theatre pieces as they play out on their own soil. In the third part, “Avignon,” Turk captures the subject within a more fluid context that is, most interestingly, both eminently French and resolutely international. The Paris and Avignon chapters contain valuable and well-informed contextual and background information as well as descriptions of the milieus of the Avignon Festival and the various neighborhoods in Paris where he attended performances, information that readers cannot find easily elsewhere. Finally, in the spirit of inclusiveness that characterizes so much new French theatre and to give a representative account of his own experiences as a spectator, Turk rounds out his survey with observations on Paris’s lively opera scene and France’s wealth of circus entertainments, both traditional and newly envisioned. With his shrewd assessments of contemporary French theatre, Turk conveys an excitement and an affection for his topic destined to arouse similar responses in his readers. His book’s freshness and openness will reward theatre enthusiasts who are curious about an aspect of French culture that is inadequately known in this country, veteran scholars and students of contemporary world theatre, and those American theatre professionals who have the ultimate authority and good fortune to determine which new French works will reach audiences on these shores.
Author : Jordan Tannahill
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 177056411X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Theatre of the Unimpressed written by Jordan Tannahill and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)
Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.
Author : Lewis Clinton Strang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The theatre of today written by Lewis Clinton Strang and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin A. Carlson and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Expanded edition of the work originally published by Cornell U. Press in 1984 and endorsed by BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136448500
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Mise en Scène written by Patrice Pavis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the foreword Contemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s masterful analysis of the role that staging has played in the creation and practice of theatre throughout history. This stunningly ambitious study considers: the staged reading, at the frontiers of mise en scène; scenography, which sometimes replaces staging; the reinterpretation of classical and contemporary works; the development of intercultural theatre and ritual; new technologies and their usage live on the stage; the postmodern practice of deconstruction. But it also applies sustained critical attention to the challenges of defining mise en scène, of tracking its development, and of exploring its possible futures. Joel Anderson’s powerful new translation lucidly realises Pavis’s investigation of the changing possibilities for stagecraft in the context of performance art, physical theatre and modern theory.
Author : Lewis Clinton Strang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century: The theatre of today written by Lewis Clinton Strang and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hopkins
Publisher : New York : S. French
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Theatre Today written by Arthur Hopkins and published by New York : S. French. This book was released on 1944 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryony Kimmings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786820617
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer written by Bryony Kimmings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-singing, all-dancing celebration of ordinary life and death. Single mum Emma confronts the highs and lows of life with a cancer diagnosis; that of her son and of the real people she encounters in the daily hospital grind. Groundbreaking performance artist Bryony Kimmings creates fearless theatre to provoke social change, looking behind the poster campaigns and pink ribbons at the experience of serious illness.
Author : Hiram Kelly Moderwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Today written by Hiram Kelly Moderwell and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648612
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Theatre: A Very Short Introduction written by Marvin Carlson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this Very Short Introduction Marvin Carlson takes us through Ancient Greece and Rome, to Medieval Japan and Europe, to America and beyond, and looks at how the various forms of theatre have been interpreted and enjoyed. Exploring the role that theatre artists play — from the actor and director to the designer and puppet-master, as well as the audience — this is an engaging exploration of what theatre has meant, and still means, to people of all ages at all times. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Jack Gelber
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802132857
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Connection written by Jack Gelber and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J. Thorold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanmarie Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000045226
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Teaching Critical Performance Theory written by Jeanmarie Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book’s seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an emerging theatre artist or scholar? Which theories should be taught, and to whom? How can theory pedagogies shape and respond to the evolving needs of the academy, the field, and the community? This broad field of enquiry is divided into four sections covering course design, classroom teaching, the studio space, and applied theatre contexts. Through a range of intriguing case studies that encourage thoughtful theatre practice, this book explores themes surrounding situated learning, dramaturgy and technology, disability and inclusivity, feminist approaches, race and performance, ethics, and critical theory in theatre history. Written as an invaluable resource for professionals and postgraduates engaged in performance theory, this collection of informative essays will also provide critical reading for those interested in drama and theatre studies more broadly.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Theatre Arts Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
