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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 31

Author : Chase Bringardner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370188
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 31 written by Chase Bringardner and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new issue of the longstanding theatre journal, documenting conversations that traverse disciplinary boundaries The essays in the thirty-first volume of Theatre Symposium traverse disciplinary boundaries to explore what constitutes the "popular" in theater and performance in an increasingly frenetic and mediated landscape. Amid the current resurgence of populist discourse and the enduring impact of popular culture, this volume explores what is considered popular, how that determination gets made, and who makes it. The answers to these questions shape the structures and systems of performance in an interaction that is reciprocal, intricate, and multifaceted. Productions often succeed or fail based on their ability to align with what is popular--sometimes productively, sometimes clumsily, sometimes brazenly, and sometimes tragically. In our current moment, what constitutes the popular profoundly affects the real world politically, economically, and socially. Controversies about the electoral college system hinge on the primacy of the "popular" vote. Streaming services daily update lists of their most popular content and base future decisions on opaque measures of popularity. Social media platforms broadcast popular content across the globe, triggering new products, social activism, and political revolutions. The contributors to this volume engage with a range of contemporary and historical examples and argue with clarity and acuity the interplay of performance and the popular. Theatre and performance deeply engage with the popular at every level--from audience response to box office revenue. The variety of methodologies and sites of inquiry showcased in this volume demonstrates the breadth and depth of the popular and the importance of such work to understanding our present moment onstage and off. CONTRIBUTORS Mysia Anderson / Chase Bringardner / Elizabeth M. Cizmar / Chelsea Curto / Janet M. Davis / Tom Fish / Kyla Kazuschyk / Sarah McCarroll / Eleanor Owicki / Sunny Stalter-Pace / Chelsea Taylor / Chris Woodworth

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17

Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355553
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17 written by Jay Malarcher and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional. Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of "airdomes" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first half of the 20th century; the civic-religious pageants staged by certain Mormon congregations; Wheels-A-Rolling, and other railroad themed pageants; first-hand accounts of the innovative Hunter Hills theatre program in Tennessee; the role of traditional outdoor historical drama, particularly the long-running performances of Paul Green's The Lost Colony; and the rise of the part dance, part sport, part performance phenomenon "parkour"-- the improvised traversal of obstacles found in both urban and rural landscapes.

Theatre History Studies 2011, Vol. 31

Author : Rhona Justice-Malloy
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356843
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2011, Vol. 31 written by Rhona Justice-Malloy and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-10 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. THS is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and is included in the MLA Directory of Periodicals. THS is indexed in Humanities Index, Humanities Abstracts, Book Review Index, MLA International Bibliography, International Bibliography of Theatre, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, and IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews. Full texts of essays appear in the databases of both Humanities Abstracts Full Text as well as SIRS From published reviews “This established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated . . . . The subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O’Neill.”—CHOICE “International in scope but with an emphasis on American, British, and Continental theater, this fine academic journal includes seven to nine scholarly articles dealing with everything from Filipino theater during the Japanese occupation to numerous articles on Shakespearean production to American children’s theater. . . . an excellent addition for academic, university, and large public libraries.”—Magazines for Libraries, 6th Edition

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 21

Author : Edward Bert Wallace
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370080
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 21 written by Edward Bert Wallace and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from prehistory to the present there have been clear and vital connections among the three. Ritual, Religion, and Theatre, volume 21 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, presents a series of essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships that exist, historically and today, between these various modes of expression and performance. The essays in this volume discuss the stage presence of the spiritual meme; ritual performance and spirituality in The Living Theatre; theatricality, themes, and theology in James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones; Jordan Harrison’s Act a Lady and the ritual of queerness; Gerpla and national identity in Iceland; confession in Hamlet and Measure for Measure; Christian liturgical drama; Muslim theatre and performance; cave rituals and the Brain’s Theatre; and other, more general issues. Edited by E. Bert Wallace, this latest publication by the largest regional theatre organization in the United States collects the most current scholarship on theatre history and theory. CONTRIBUTORS Cohen Ambrose / David Callaghan / Gregory S. Carr Matt DiCintio / William Doan / Tom F. Driver / Steve Earnest Jennifer Flaherty / Charles A. Gillespie / Thomas L. King Justin Kosec / Mark Pizzato / Kate Stratton

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22

Author : David S. Thompson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370099
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22 written by David S. Thompson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven original essays in Volume 22 of Theatre Symposium examine facets of the historical and current business of theatre.

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 19

Author : J K Curry
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370064
Total Pages : 153 pages
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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 19 written by J K Curry and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a shared history and many common present practices, the relationship between theatre and film often remains uncertain. Does a close study of film enrich an understanding of drama on the stage? What ongoing connections do theatre and film maintain, and what elements do they borrow from each other? Does the relative popularity and accessibility of film lead to an increased scholarly defensiveness about qualities exclusive to theatrical performances? Do theatre and film demand two different kinds of attention from spectators, or do audiences tend to experience both in the same ways? The essays in “Theatre Symposium: Volume 19” present this dynamic coexistence of theatre and film, and examine the nature of their mutual influence on each other. Bruce McConachie, in his contribution to the collection, “Theatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective,” argues that the cognitive functions used to interpret either media arise from the same evolutionary foundation, and that therefore the viewing experiences of theatre and film are closely linked to each other. In “Robert Edmond Jones: Theatre and Motion Pictures, Bridging Reality and Dreams,” Anthony Hostetter and Elisabeth Hostetter consider Jones’ influential vision of a “theater of the future,” in which traditional stage performances incorporate mediated video material into stage productions. Becky Becker’s “Nollywood: Film and Home Video, of the Death of Nigerian Theatre,” by focusing on the current conversation in Nigeria, discusses the anxiety generated by a film and video industry burgeoning into and displacing theatre culture These and the six other essays in “Theatre Symposium: Volume 19” shed light on the current state of affairs—the collaborations and the tensions—between two distinctly individual yet inextricably related artistic media.

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20

Author : Edward Bert Wallace
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370072
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20 written by Edward Bert Wallace and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The audience is an integral part of performance and is in fact what separates a rehearsal from a performance. The relationship, however, between performers and the audience has evolved over time, which is one of the subjects addressed, along with the changing disposition of the audience itself and a number of other topics, in Gods and Groundlings, volume 20 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium. The essays in this volume discuss spectatorship in historical context, the role of the audience in the digital age, the early modern English transvestite theatre, Annie Oakley and the disruption of Victorian audiences, and historical attempts to create ideal audiences. Edited by E. Bert Wallace, this latest publication from the largest regional theatre organization in the United States collects the most current scholarship on theatre history and theory. Contributors To Volume 20 Susan Bennett / Jane Barnette / Becky Becker / Lisa Bernd / Evan Bridenstine / Michael Jaros / Robert I. Lublin / Paulette Marty

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 16

Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355103
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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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.

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15

Author : M. Scott Phillips
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354573
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15 written by M. Scott Phillips and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-09-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30

Author : Chase Bringardner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081737017X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30 written by Chase Bringardner and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how theatre's engagement with politics changes over time

Beyond Documentary Realism

Author : Cyrielle Garson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715864
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Documentary Realism written by Cyrielle Garson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book series CDE Studies invites monographs (and collections) on issues in contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. The book series is dedicated to the analysis and renegotiation of contemporary writers and plays and their historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological contexts.

Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

Author : Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817371141
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 written by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theater of Tony Kushner

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429675984
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Tony Kushner written by James Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist, this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society, from politics and economics to race, gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals.

New Theatre Quarterly 60: Volume 15, Part 4

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655965
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 60: Volume 15, Part 4 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351751433
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), festivals, and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims, women of the Black Arts Movement, Afro-Latinx theatre, youth theatre, and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews, sense-making, rituals, and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen, classroom, club, or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1

Author : Mike Vanden Heuvel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051551
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1 written by Mike Vanden Heuvel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across two volumes, Mike Vanden Heuvel and a strong roster of contributors present the history, processes, and achievements of American theatre companies renowned for their use of collective and/or ensemble-based techniques to generate new work. This first study considers theatre companies that were working between 1970 and 1995: it traces the rise and eventual diversification of activist-based companies that emerged to serve particular constituencies from the countercultural politics of the 1960s, and examines the shift in the 1980s that gave rise to the next generation of company-based work, rooted in a new interest in form and the more mediated and dispersed forms of politics. Ensembles examined are Mabou Mines, Theatre X, Goat Island, Lookingglass, Elevator Repair Service, and SITI Company. Preliminary chapters provide a sweeping overview of ensemble-based creation within the general historical and cultural contexts of the period, followed by a detailed study of the evolution of ensemble-based work. The case studies consider factors such as influence, funding, production, and legacies, as well as the forms of collective devising and creation, while surveying the continuing work of significant long-running companies. Contributors provide detailed case studies of the 6 companies from the period and cover: * A chronicle of development and methods * Key productions and projects * Critical reception and legacy * A chronological overview of significant productions From the long history of collective theatre creation, with its sources in social crises, urgent aesthetic experimentation and utopian dreaming, American ensemble-based theatre has emerged at several key points in history to challenge the primacy of author-based and director-produced theatre. As the volume demonstrates, US ensemble companies have collectively revolutionized the form and content of contemporary performance, influencing experimental, as well as mainstream practice.

Harlequin Empire

Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315499
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Empire written by David Worrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.