Miming category: 12 books

"Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history. . . . Like pulling a ghost from a dark room, this is an accomplished work...

Generations of entertainers have amused audiences of children and adults with the art of hand shadows, using only a light source and their own two hands to form immediately recognizable profiles of people and animals. Lovers of nostalgia and aspiring hand shadow artists will delight in this facsimile...

Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud....

VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale...

Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (1921) è una commedia teatrale la cui struttura non è divisa in atti e scene, ma si snoda linearmente in modo continuo, segmentata solo da due interruzioni apparentemente casuali. Una compagnia teatrale drammatica sta provando Il gioco delle parti, opera sempre...

Improvisationstheater ermutigt, uns dem Moment zu überlassen und in eine lebendige Interaktion mit den Mitspielern und dem Publikum zu gehen, Neues zu wagen, Ängste hinter uns zu lassen und die eigenen Fähigkeiten zu erweitern. Dan Richter, seit vielen Jahren Impro-Spieler und -Lehrer, erläutert...

Mime the Gap: Techniques in Mime and Movement explores the physicality of movement in storytelling, offering new ideas about acting and performance, whilst encouraging a contemporary resurgence of this traditional performance art. With detailed, step-by-step instructions of basic to advanced mime...

Deutsche Erstausgabe! Die amerikanische Regisseurin und Theaterprofessorin Anne Bogart stellt in sieben anregenden Essays grundsätzliche Fragen zu kreativen Prozessen. Das klar und gut lesbar geschriebene Buch untersucht - immer ausgehend von Bogarts persönlichen Erfahrungen als Regisseurin - die...

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue collection of some of the finest political satires created and produced by the Tony Award-winning company during the last forty years. It is also a history of the company that was the theater of the counterculture movement in the 1960s...

Roland Schimmelpfennig, vielfach ausgezeichnet und in Deutschland wie international einer der meistgespielten deutschsprachigen Dramatiker, gibt in "Ja und Nein" erstmals ausführlich Auskunft über sein künstlerisches Selbstverständnis und darüber, was Theater ist und sein soll: einfach,...

Was ist ein Auftritt? Der Sammelband geht der Frage nach, was es bedeutet, auf dem Theater in Erscheinung zu treten. Er handelt von der wichtigsten, häufigsten und zugleich vernachlässigten Regieanweisung des europäischen Theaters: "Enter" oder "Auftritt". An Beispielen aus...

Representada pela primeira vez em 405 a.C., esta é uma das mais célebres tragédias de Eurípides, o último dos três grandes tragediógrafos gregos. Além de sua excelência artística, trata-se de um dos principais testemunhos antigos sobre o menadismo, religião de origem oriental que está...