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Theatre Scandals

Author : Vicki Ann Cremona
Publisher : Themes in Theatre
ISBN 13 : 9789004433250
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Scandals written by Vicki Ann Cremona and published by Themes in Theatre. This book was released on 2020 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of theatre history, scandals have taken place and the variety of causes, processes and types of interactions makes them an interesting object of study. Theatre scandals often indicate clashes with a dominant ideology or with the ideology of a particular group in society. Sometimes, following a scandal, the attacked ideology changes and incorporates the possibility of the aesthetics or themes that caused the clash. In this way, scandals can cause dynamic changes within cultural systems.0Next to theoretical considerations the contributors, all members of the IFTR Theatrical Event Working Group, present in their various case studies a wide cultural and chronological diversity of theatre scandals, all of which were experienced as very shocking moments in theatre history.

Theatre Scandals

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433988
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Scandals written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre scandals may cause dynamic changes within cultural systems. The case studies in this volume present a wide cultural and chronological variety of such scandals, illustrating the various causes, processes and interactions that characterize these shocking moments in theatre history.

Scandal on Stage

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139481746
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Scandal on Stage written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France as symptoms of contemporary social, political, ethical, and aesthetic upheavals. The writers and composers concerned, including Schiller, Stravinsky, Strauss, Brecht and Weil, portrayed new artistic and ideological ideas that came into conflict with the expectations of their audiences. In a comparative perspective, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how theatrical scandals reflect or challenge cultural and ethical assumptions and asks whether theatre can still be, as Schiller wrote, a moral institution: one that successfully makes its audience think differently about social, political and ethical questions.

Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27

Author : Theatre History Studies
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354409
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2007, Vol. 27 written by Theatre History Studies and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

The Theatrical Public Sphere

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139991817
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Theatrical Public Sphere written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642, theatre's use of media, controversies surrounding race, religion and blasphemy, and theatre's place in a new age of globalised aesthetics. Balme concludes by addressing the relationship of theatre today with the public sphere and whether theatre's transformation into an art form has made it increasingly irrelevant for contemporary society.

Stage, Page, Scandals and Vandals

Author : D. L. Rinear
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388776
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Stage, Page, Scandals and Vandals written by D. L. Rinear and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton fled England in 1834 and came to America in the wake of a public scandal caused by his marriage to a sixteen-year-old orphan. Burton was then already married with a ten-year-old son. Settling in Philadelphia, the thirty-two-year-old actor rapidly established himself in the city's theatrical productions and quickly became an audience favorite.

The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers

Author : Laura MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137433086
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers written by Laura MacDonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre. Featuring fifty-one essays written by international specialists in the field, it offers new insights into the world of musical theatre, its creation and its promotion. Key areas of investigation include the lives and works of producers whose work is part of a US and worldwide musical theatre legacy, as well as the largely critically-neglected role of the musical theatre producer in the making, marketing, and performance of musicals. Also explored are the shifting roles of producers in musical theatre and their popular portrayals, offering a reader-friendly collection for fans, scholars, students, and practitioners of musical theatre alike.

Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution

Author : Katrin Beushausen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107181453
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution written by Katrin Beushausen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.

Theatre Worlds in Motion

Author : S.E. Wilmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004647120
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Worlds in Motion written by S.E. Wilmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre Worlds in Motion aims to clarify the different theatre traditions and practices in Western Europe from a historical and sociological perspective. The book grew out of a perceived need among theatre scholars who had recognised that, while they understood the theatre system of their own country, they often found it difficult to discover how it compared with other countries. The chapters analyse the basic components and dynamics of theatre systems in seventeen Western European nations in order to elucidate how the systems function in general and how they vary in different cultures. The book provides a sense of what has been happening recently in particular countries, and indicates how the theatre systems have developed over time and have led to the current practices and structures. Each national chapter considers the historical tradition and place of theatre within the country and analyses the role of the state in fostering theatre during the last fifty years. Material from the national chapters has been used in two general chapters at the beginning and end of the book to provide an overview to developments in all Western Europe. The introductory chapter on decentralisation discusses the tendency amongst governments to encourage cultural development outside the national capital by providing subsidy for regional theatre venues and theatre companies and, in many cases, by developing the decision-making and budgetary powers for the theatre to regional and local authorities. The epilogue on the functioning of theatre examines the common structures of theatre in society as described in the seventeen national chapters, and it proposes areas for future research.

Dictionary of the Theatre

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802081636
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the Theatre written by Patrice Pavis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

New Theatre Quarterly 56: Volume 14, Part 4

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648509
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 56: Volume 14, Part 4 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to critical questioning. Articles in Volume 66 will include: Dario Fo, the Commune, and the Battle for the Palazzina Liberty; Dramaturgy according to Daedalus; 'Other' Spaces of Translation: the Theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès; 'Everybody Got Their Brown Dress': Millennium Revivals of the Medieval Mysteries; 'Suffrage Shrews': Mary Pickford's Katherina and the Stratford Visit to Los Angeles; Alternative Theatre in Poland since 1989.

History of European Drama and Theatre

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134678614
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy * the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

Theatre History Studies

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At This Theatre

Author : Louis Botto
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476850275
Total Pages : 1163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book At This Theatre written by Louis Botto and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Theatregoers' favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. Thirty-eight of the original chapters have been expanded to cover all the shows that have opened in the ten years since the popular 2000 edition, with two new chapters added to include Broadway theatres recently refurbished and returned to life. This unique chronicle is the first work to present a detailed theatre-by-theatre roundup of players and productions that have enchanted audiences at Broadway's great playhouses from 1900 to 2010. The work is an expanded treatment of "At This Theatre," the popular feature in Playbill's Broadway theatre programs. "At This Theatre" offers playgoers instant nostalgia by listing notable hits (and some famed fiascos) that have played through the years in the theatre that they are attending. The book also pays tribute to the distinguished impresarios who built and managed these houses, and the brilliant architects and interior designers who created them. The original 1984 edition was created by Playbill senior editor Louis Botto. Botto worked with editor Robert Viagas on the 2000 update. With the third edition, Botto has passed the author torch to Viagas, who founded Playbill.com and the acclaimed Playbill Broadway Yearbook series, and who has written the updates in Botto's style.

Scandals in History

Author : Ed Rayner
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249628X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Scandals in History written by Ed Rayner and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of what is scandalous vary from age to age, but our fascination with all things outrageous remains the same. Whether the sexual disgraces of the Victorian era or the political outrages of modern times, the shocking and the immoral never cease to cause a stir among the masses. Bestselling partnership Ed Rayner and Ron Stapley return with their latest collection of fascinating historical facts, this time about weird and wonderful scandals throughout the ages. From the sexual scandals of the Victorian music halls, the trial of Oscar Wilde and the adventures of Ned Kelly to the hanging of Ruth Ellis and even the shooting of Tony Martin, this book is a must for all those interested in the history of scandal.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408134810
Total Pages : 418 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 418 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.

Christoph Schlingensief

Author : Anna Teresa Scheer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350001066
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Christoph Schlingensief written by Anna Teresa Scheer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. Scheer traces Schlingensief's artistic lineage as a filmmaker with no formal training in theatre, whose work does not correspond to theoretical frameworks such as postdramatic theatre, Regietheater, or established categories of political theatre such as Brechtian, community, and agit-prop theatre. She explores how his work instead draws upon the highly performative gestures of the historical and post-Cold War avant-gardes as well the happenings and event-based practices of the sixties. Comprehensive case studies of six diverse theatrical and activist events are offered to demonstrate both the immediacy of Schlingensief's response to contemporary social and political events and his use of a range of artistic influences and different genres: Rocky Dutschke '68 (1996), Save Capitalism: Throw the Money Away! (1999) The Berlin Republic – or the Ring in Africa (1999) Hamlet (2001), Atta Atta – Art Has Broken Out! (2003) and the Church of Fear (2003). Key questions such as how his theatre functions as a provocation, and how an artist can insert themselves into the powerful flows of imagery produced by the perpetual global news cycle, form a coherent line of enquiry throughout each of the chapters. The significance of Schlingensief's artistic legacy of politicized theatre-making that pioneers new modes of active, aesthetic and public engagement in the political realm remains pertinent to topical socio-political debates and is of relevance to an international audience across a diversity of disciplines.