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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook

Author : Richard Drain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134864744
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook written by Richard Drain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth century, from the onset of modernism to the present, providing direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating theatre the century has had to offer, as well as guidelines to its present most adventurous developments. Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist, Political, Inner and Global dimensions of twentieth century theatre. Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook provides illuminationg perspectives on past history, and throws fresh light on the sources and development of theatre today. This sourcebook is not only an essential and versatile collection for students at all levels, but also directed numerous devised shows which have toured to theatres, schools, community centres and prisons.

Chapters from the History of Stage Cruelty

Author : Günter Ahrends
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823340379
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Chapters from the History of Stage Cruelty written by Günter Ahrends and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unbalancing Acts

Author : Richard Foreman
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unbalancing Acts written by Richard Foreman and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflection in Sequence

Author : Sandra J. Schumm
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754009
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Reflection in Sequence written by Sandra J. Schumm and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The codes of conduct imposed on females by Spain's dictator Francisco Franco after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) created a stifling environment for women until his death in 1975. Beginning with Carmen Laforet's 1944 Nadal Prize-winning novel Nada, novels by women - many of which explore female identity - began to proliferate in Spain. The works examined in this study - Nada, Primera memoria (1960) by Ana Maria Matute, La placa del Diamant (1962) by Merce Rodoreda, Julia (1969) by Ana Maria Moix, El cuarto de atras (1978) by Carmen Martin Gaite, El amor es un juego solitario (1979) by Esther Tusquets, and Questio d'amor propi (1987) by Carme Riera - feature female protagonists struggling for self-realization and, by extension, for change in a restrictive Spanish society. Schumm's analysis of the seven novels demonstrates how examination of metaphoric tropes and mirror images provides insight into the protagonists' development.

Looking Into the Abyss

Author : Arnold Aronson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068883
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Looking Into the Abyss written by Arnold Aronson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging essays by an internationally prominent historian and theorist of theater set design

Richard Foreman

Author : Neal Swettenham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351594966
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Richard Foreman written by Neal Swettenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Foreman has been writing, directing and designing avant-garde theatre in New York since he first founded his Ontological-Hysteric company there in 1968. In all that time, few directors have taken up the challenge of staging his problematic, rewarding texts, and Foreman's work remains under-explored by other practitioners. Richard Foreman: An American (Partly) in Paris argues that Foreman can productively be viewed as a (partly) European artist, whose thinking and theatre-making have been radically shaped by contact with Europe. Through a detailed account of his European productions, interviews with Foreman himself, a set of practical strategies for staging the plays and the full text of Foreman's previously unpublished play Georges Bataille’s Bathrobe (1983), Neal Swettenham introduces the director’s work to a new generation of readers and theatre-makers.

Theories of Performance

Author : Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412926386
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Performance written by Elizabeth Bell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies.

Art Into Theatre

Author : Nick Kaye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134370539
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Art Into Theatre written by Nick Kaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion. Ranging from the austerity of Cage's 4'33" through the inter-species communication of Schneeman's Cat Scanand the experimental theatre work of Schechner, Foreman, and Kirby, to the recent performances of Abramovic, Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, Art Into Theatre offers a fascinating collection of perspectives on the destabilizing of conventional ideas of the art "object" and the theatrical "text". Nick Kaye's introductory essay to the volume offers a useful context for the reader and each interview is preceded by an informative biographical sketch.

Theatre and the Digital

Author : Bill Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137355786
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and the Digital written by Bill Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts? This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and about the widening purposes of the theatre's cultural project in a changing digital world. Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Bill Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.

A Pathognomy of Performance

Author : S. Bayly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306934
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book A Pathognomy of Performance written by S. Bayly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.

Performance Studies

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351978934
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Performance Studies written by Richard Schechner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, social media, the performances of the paleolithic period, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, the performing arts, and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website, offering a variety of interactive resources, teaching tools, and research links.

How to Read a Play

Author : Damon Kiely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317283627
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Play written by Damon Kiely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read a Play outlines the cruicial work required for a play before the first rehearsal, the first group reading or even the before the cast have met. Directors and dramaturgs must know how to analyze, understand and interpret a play or performance text if they hope to bring it to life on the stage. This book provides a broad range of tools and methods that can be used when reading a text, including: Lessons from the past. What can we learn from Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, Brecht and Harold Clurman? This section establishes the models and methods that underpin much of a director’s work today. A survey of current practices in Western theatre. A combination of research, interviews and observation of practical work addresses the main stages in understanding a play, such as getting to know characters, sharing ideas, mapping the action and grappling with language. A workbook, setting out twenty one ways of breaking down a play, from the general to the particular. Contributions, reflections and interjections from a host of successful directors make this the ideal starting point for anyone who wants to direct a play, or even devise one of their own. This wide range of different approaches, options and techniques allows each reader to create their own brand of play analysis.

Land/scape/theater

Author : Elinor Fuchs
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067206
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Land/scape/theater written by Elinor Fuchs and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater

Authoring Performance

Author : A. Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113700178X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Authoring Performance written by A. Sidiropoulou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical, theoretical, and comparative study of the emergence of the director-as-author phenomenon, posing questions of authorship and redefining the relationship between 'playwright' and the director-playwright.

The Manifestos and Essays

Author : Richard Foreman
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366524
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Manifestos and Essays written by Richard Foreman and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews, provide a fascinating window into Richard Foreman's singular mind and creative process. Also included is The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), his last play before transitioning to more multi-media work. Richard Foreman has written, directed, and designed more than fifty of his own plays, both internationally and at his Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968. He has received many OBIE awards, an NEA Lifetime Achievement Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.

The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

Author : Sarah Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136680756
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players written by Sarah Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has been commissioned by venues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Ireland. Although his productions generate a plethora of reviews, there is a deficit of material providing a critical and sustained engagement with his work. The aim of this book is to provide a critical survey of Maxwell’s work since 1992, including his early participation in Cook County Theater Department. Touching upon the acting, production and rehearsal processes of NYC Player’s work, and Maxwell's representations of space, community, race, and gender, this volume provides scholars with an important overview of a key figure in contemporary drama.

The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre

Author : David V. Mason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351785826
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre written by David V. Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious practitioners and theatregoers have much in common. So much, in fact, that we can say that religion is often a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre can be a religious experience. By examining the phenomenology of religion, we can in turn develop a better understanding of the phenomenology of theatre. That is to say, religion can show us the ways in which theatre is not fake. This study explores the overlap of religion and theatre, especially in the crucial area of experience and personal identity. Reconsidering ideas from ancient Greece, premodern India, modern Europe, and the recent century, it argues that religious adherents and theatre audiences are largely, themselves, the mechanisms of their experiences. By examining the development of the philosophy of theatre alongside theories of religious action, this book shows how we need to adjust our views of both. Featuring attention to influential notions from Plato and Aristotle, from the Natyashastra, from Schleiermacher to Sartre, Bourdieu, and Butler, and considering contemporary theories of performance and ritual, this is vital reading for any scholar in religious studies, theatre and performance studies, theology, or philosophy.