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Theatre and Boxing

Author : Franco Ruffini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317325656
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Boxing written by Franco Ruffini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor’s believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdle can be considered one of the foundations of theatre science and of the relationship between technique, politics and ethics. This book tells the story of a revolution in the work of the actor in the early- and mid-20th century, a period in which the focus of theatrical interest shifted from the emotions to the body. The actor’s body became a tool for purveying a dynamic set of actions which often transformed the very actor himself. This new centrality of the body also drew attention to those places in which the body is central: the gym, the boxing ring and the circus with its trapezes and tightropes became, together with the stage, laboratories for the theatre. Thus, in addition to the reformers of the theatre the pages of this book are filled with boxers, acrobats, gymnasts and wrestlers, pursuers of an utopia: the "actor who flies".

Theatre and Boxing

Author : Franco Ruffini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315656632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Boxing written by Franco Ruffini and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor's believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdle can be considered one of the foundations of theatre science and of the relationship between technique, politics and ethics. This book tells the story of a revolution in the work of the actor in the early- and mid-20th century, a period in which the focus of theatrical interest shifted from the emotions to the body. The actor's body became a tool for purveying a dynamic set of actions which often transformed the very actor himself. This new centrality of the body also drew attention to those places in which the body is central: the gym, the boxing ring and the circus with its trapezes and tightropes became, together with the stage, laboratories for the theatre. Thus, in addition to the reformers of the theatre the pages of this book are filled with boxers, acrobats, gymnasts and wrestlers, pursuers of an utopia: the "actor who flies".

The Royale

Author : Marco Ramirez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783198575
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Royale written by Marco Ramirez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ain’t about bein’ no Heavyweight Champion of the White World. It’s about bein’ Champion, period.’ Jay ‘The Sport’ Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But it’s 1905 and, in the racially segregated world of boxing, his chances are as good as knocked out. When a boxing promoter hatches a plan for the ‘Fight of theCentury’, The Sport might land a place in the ring with the reigning white heavyweight champion, but at what cost? It’s not just a retired champ he’s facing, it’s ‘The Great White Hope’. In daring to realise his dream, is Jay responsible for putting African American lives in the danger zone? Told in six rounds and set in a boxing ring, The Royale is inspired by the often overlooked story of Jack Johnson, a boxer who – at the height of the Jim Crow era – became the most famous and the most notorious black man on Earth.

Sucker Punch

Author : Roy Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408131366
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Sucker Punch written by Roy Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock down, no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go." In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus - American powerhouse or naïve cash cow? Having spent their youth in the same London boxing gym, vying for the favouritism of inspirational, foul-mouthed trainer Charlie Maggs, the two former friends step into the ring and face up to who they are. Boxing has dominated their lives with an unhoped-for structure and meaning, but it becomes clear that it is no substitute for their health, family, and friends. Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and Black in the 80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won. With vivid characters, the play is by turns tender, shocking and funny. The boxing subject endows it with a tremendous energy and sets up strong, nuanced dialectics for the characters to tussle with. There is conflict, tension and excitement but also very real characters, drawn with sympathy and un-idealised affection.

Blade to the Heat

Author : Oliver Mayer
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822215622
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Blade to the Heat written by Oliver Mayer and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Boxer Pedro Quinn, an introverted loner, wins a surprise split-decision against the reigning middleweight champion, Mantequilla Decima. Used to winning, Mantequilla grows embittered by the loss of his title. Worse, he starts hearing one

The Theatre

Author : Clement Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre written by Clement Scott and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.

Bitch Boxer

Author : Charlie Josephine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439354
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Bitch Boxer written by Charlie Josephine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitch Boxer was the winner of the Holden Street Theatres Awards 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke with Rihanna and winding her Dad up. Oh, and she's a boxer. London, 2012. Women will step into the Olympic boxing ring for the very first time. And it's in Stratford. Down the road. As Chloe trains for the fight of her life, she is left winded by two life-changing events. In a man's world, can she prove she's still worth the title?

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Author : Kristoffer Díaz
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573699674
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity written by Kristoffer Díaz and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity follows the life of wrestler Macedonio Guerra. As a lifelong fan, he has followed wrestling only to become a "jobber," one who is paid to lose to bigger-name stars in the ring. Macedonio meets Vigneshwar Paduar, a young Indian man from Brooklyn, who he wants to team up with. The wrestling execs go for it, but pitch them as "terrorists" in the ring. Macedonio and Vigneshwar find a way to push the personas to the limits and say what needs to be said. Unspoken racism, politics, and courage are all woven into this play that leaves it all on the mat.

The academy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beautiful Burnout

Author : Bryony Lavery
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571273602
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Burnout written by Bryony Lavery and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your guard up. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your boy. Keep him safe. Keep him close. That is all that matters. Cameron is going places. He's going to see lights. He's going to make the world take notice and kneel at his feet. He's fighting for his club, his mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible. Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. Beautiful Burnout premiered at the Pleasance Forth as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2010 before touring the UK in a co-production between Frantic Assembly and the National Theatre of Scotland.

The Theatre

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great White Hope

Author : Howard Sackler
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573609602
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Great White Hope written by Howard Sackler and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The dramatist] has used his hero, a fighter based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson ... as a symbol in part of Black aspiration"--Back cover.

Fight Pictures

Author : Dan Streible
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250753
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Fight Pictures written by Dan Streible and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 a filmed prize-fight became one of cinema's first major attractions, and such films continued to enjoy great popularity for many years to come. This work chronicles the story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and other forms of boxing came to dominate the screens of the silent-era.

Theatre of Anger

Author : Olivia Landry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487536763
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Theatre of Anger written by Olivia Landry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theatre of Anger, Olivia Landry offers a provocative new vision of anger as more than just hate and violence. Studying the work of a new generation of transnational theatre practitioners in Berlin, she illuminates how anger can be an affirmative and critical tool in the project of social justice and resistance. To develop her theory of anger, Landry delves into philosophical texts, theatre history, and Black feminist theory from Aristotle, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Bertolt Brecht to Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Sara Ahmed. Landry focuses not only on the social and political significance of the theatre of anger and the ways in which it rages against racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homophobia, but also on its aesthetic and theoretical innovation. Through readings of key works, Theatre of Anger asks what it means in our present world to construct political theatre.

The Theatrical times

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Theatrical times written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama in the Bahamas

Author : Dave Hannigan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613218990
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Drama in the Bahamas written by Dave Hannigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief. “It’s over,” mumbled Ali. “It’s over.” The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theatre in the boondocks. In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali’s last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his fortieth birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick. “Two billion people will be conscious of my fight,” said Ali, trotting out the old braggadocio about an event so lacking in luster that a cow bell was pressed in to service to signal the start and end of each round. How had it come to this? Why was he still boxing? Hannigan answers those questions and many more, offering a unique and telling glimpse into the most fascinating sportsman of the twentieth century in the last, strange days of his fistic life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Fight

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812986121
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Fight written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer’s grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems—and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport. Praise for The Fight “Exquisitely refined and attenuated . . . [a] sensitive portrait of an extraordinary athlete and man, and a pugilistic drama fully as exciting as the reality on which it is based.”—The New York Times “One of the defining texts of sports journalism. Not only does Mailer recall the violent combat with a scholar’s eye . . . he also makes the whole act of reporting seem as exciting as what’s occurring in the ring.”—GQ “Stylistically, Mailer was the greatest boxing writer of all time.”—Chuck Klosterman, Esquire “One of Mailer’s finest books.”—Louis Menand, The New Yorker Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post