Theatre category: 6638 books
Working Together in Theatre
Collaboration and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production's conception to its final performance. This book challenges the notion that creating brilliant...
So Near, Yet So Far
Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is the first-ever, full-length study of Badal Sircar's Third Theatre. Sircar was a very prominent playwright of modern Bengali Theatre. It challenges some of the well-established notions of the Third Theatre. It brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of the Third Theatre. It has some rare photographs of Shatabdi, Sircar's Theatre group.
by Bree Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a ‘game changer’ by many in the theatre industry....
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Musical Theatre in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast. In the first hundred years of its existence, commercial musical theatre functioned on one basic model. However, with the advent...
by Jarka M. Burian
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian provides us with insightful portraits of the directors K. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the famous Voskovec...
Anthony Neilson Plays: 3
Relocated; Get Santa!; Narrative; Unreachable; The Prudes
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2018
Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and...
Words into Action
Finding the Life of the Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors.
Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was one of the founders of the Royal Court, whose ethos, as Christopher Hampton says in his Foreword,...
by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
For more than three decades Howard Barker has argued passionately against the deformation of English theatre by social realism. Insisting on the primacy of tragedy over all art forms in Western culture, his elaboration of a tragic form for our time – identified by him as The Theatre of Catastrophe...
by Bryan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The term ‘theatre laboratory’ has entered the regular lexicon of theatre artists, producers, scholars and critics alike, yet use of the term is far from unified, often operating as an catch-all for a web of intertwining practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Russian theatre, however,...
Railway Travel in Modern Theatre
Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre’s sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs—ranging from F.T. Marinetti’s futurist manifestos to epic theatre’s use of the treadmill—explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway...
Political Acts
Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences...
Theatre in Practice
A Student's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Theatre in Practice is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the various syllabi at A level, IB, BTEC and beyond. Exploring Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Lecoq, Berkoff and Craig, as well as work from innovative theatre companies such...
Introduction to Production
Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre, the book shows how theatre has evolved through...
Directing Professionally
A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today’s Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship...