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Author : Robert E. Baker-White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Theatre and Literary Text in Contemporary Drama written by Robert E. Baker-White and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas H. Dickinson
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Outline of Contemporary Drama written by Thomas H. Dickinson and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1927 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Babbage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472534166
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre written by Frances Babbage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind or another? Why do contemporary practitioners turn so frequently to non-dramatic texts for inspiration? This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of literary texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical theatre, multimedia performance, puppetry, immersive and site-specific performance and live art. In Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre, Frances Babbage offers a series of fresh critical perspectives on the theory of adaptation in theatre-making, focusing on meditations of prose literature within contemporary performance. Individual chapters explore the significance and impact of books as physical objects within productions; the relationship between the dramatic adaptation and literary edition; storytelling on the page and in performance; literary space and theatrical space; and prose fiction reframed as 'found text' in contemporary theatre and live art. Case studies are drawn from internationally acclaimed companies including Complicite, Elevator Repair Service, Kneehigh, Forced Entertainment, Gob Squad, Teatro Kismet and Stan's Cafe. Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre is a compelling and provocative resource for anyone interested in the potential and the challenges of using prose literature as material for new theatrical performance.
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 : Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865656
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Text in Contemporary Theatre written by Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. In this volume, nineteen theatre and drama researchers from the Baltic countries, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Russia and China discuss the results of their research into these issues in academic articles and essays. The book mainly focuses on the experience of the Baltics in the creation of theatrical texts, but it also provides a wider insight into the changing processes of world drama and theatre. Three sections of the volume provide numerous examples of the functionality of traditional texts in today’s theatre, as well as introducing the reader to new names in contemporary drama and the different models of practice in theatre companies. This book, with its rich collection of material and detailed analysis of different methods and experiences of contemporary theatre, is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108725
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Postmodern/drama written by Stephen Watt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444317381
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Drama written by W. B. Worthen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance
Author : Michael L. Greenwald
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780321107916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama written by Michael L. Greenwald and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 31 American and international plays offers a truly global perspective of the drama and theater that has been produced during the past 150 years. In addition to essential plays from the West's modern canon, this anthology offers a richly varied selection of plays from regions underrepresented in other texts, such as Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The book's pedagogical features all work together to provide students with the historical and cultural background they need to read plays into context. Accessible, interesting, and inclusive, the broad range of plays in this anthology will inspire, intrigue, and provoke readers to understand more deeply the literary and production history of modern and contemporary drama. One reviewer says, The coverage is great: in terms of geography, gender, race, aesthetics, and cultural issues, the editors have selected plays that are recognized for their importance within an ongoing narrative history of world drama. I've seen no other anthology like this on the market. Matthew Roudan, Georgia State University
Author : Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086211
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama written by Richard Paul Knowles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335233171
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Drama in Performance written by Raymond Williams and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1991-06-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Williams' reputation rests mainly on his contribution to literary and cultural studies, but he was also an important critic and theoretician in the field of drama. "Drama in Performance", first published in 1954, pioneered a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of plays, locating dramatic texts in the conditions and conventions of their original performance and reading them to disclose their performance potentialities. This method, which anticipated such contemporary developments as performance analysis and the semiotics of drama, is here applied to representative texts from key periods of the history of drama: the Greek stage, the medieval theatre-in-the-round and pageant-wagon, the Elizabethan public playhouse, London commercial theatres from the Restoration to the late 19th century, the naturalist stage of the Moscow Art Theatre, 20th century experimental drama, and contemporary film. This edition presents the text as Williams revised it in 1966. In addition it provides an updated bibliography of work in this field, a complete listing of all Williams' relevant writings, and a new Introduction (by Graham Holderness) which locates the book both within modern dramatic theory and criticism and within Williams' own work and demonstrates its continuing challenge and relevance.
Author : Joachim Küpper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110536633
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Net written by Joachim Küpper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.
Author : David Kerr
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Popular Theatre written by David Kerr and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African popular theater includes conventional drama plus such nonliterary performance as dance, mime, storytelling, masquerades, vaudeville, improvization, & the theater of social action & resistance. Media such as radio, film, & television are included.
Author : Kerstin Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202478
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Theater of Transformation written by Kerstin Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.
Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802130822
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Mother Courage and Her Children written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe s religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in literature."
Author : Lander MacClintock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Contemporary Drama of Italy written by Lander MacClintock and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Foertsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137605294
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)
Download or read book American Drama written by Jacqueline Foertsch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.
Author : O. Zuber
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483297993
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Languages of Theatre written by O. Zuber and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the various problems in the verbal and nonverbal translation and tranposition of drama from one language and cultural background into another and from the text on to the stage. It covers a range of previously unpublished essays specifically written on translation problems unique to drama, by playwrights and literary translators as well as theorists, scholars and teachers of drama and translation studies
