Theatre category: 6638 books
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22
Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of...
Speaking in Tongues
Languages at Play in the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part...
Legislative Theatre
Using Performance to Make Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political...
by Prof Michael Balfour, Dr Sheila Preston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
The APPLIED THEATRE series is a major innovation in applied theatre scholarship: each book presents new ways of seeing and critically reflecting on this dynamic and vibrant field. Volumes offer a theoretical framework and introductory survey of the field addressed, combined with a range of case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the theatre.
Three new productions of plays by Henrik Ibsen open somewhere in the world every week. Moreover, they are adapted into multiple genres: Chinese and Western Opera, Japanese Noh theatre, puppet plays, musicals, dance performances,...
Scenes from the Revolution
Making Political Theatre 1968-2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain.*BR**BR*Scenes from the Revolution is a celebration of fifty years of political...
Committing Theatre
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have...
Postdramatic Theatre and the Political
International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance?
The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects...
by Erika Fischer-Lichte
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre...
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance
Volume Two - From the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful...
by Grzegorz Niziolek, Claire Cochrane, Bruce McConachie
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma...
by Lynne Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This book explores the critical field of theatre sound and the sonic phenomena of theatre. It draws together a wide range of related topics, including sound design and sonic sonographies, voice as a performance of sound, listening as auditory performance, and audience as resonance. It explores radical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression.
Featuring a diverse...
by Dan Urian
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What is Israeli theatre? Is it only a Hebrew theatre staged in Israel? Are performances by Arab Israelis working in an Arabic theatre framework not part of the repertoire of Israeli theatre? Do they perhaps belong to the Palestinian theatre? What are the "borders" of Palestinian theatre?...