Theatre category: 6638 books
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of...
The Death of Character
Perspectives on Theater after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1996
Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call...
by Mark Ravenhill, Dan Rebellato
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world?
This original and provocative book explores the contribution that theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole. Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite,...
The Politics of Performance
Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
From role-plays with street gangs in the USA to Beckett in Brixton; from opera productions with sex offenders to psychodrama with psychopaths, the book will discuss, analyse and reflect on theoretical notions and practical applications of theatre for and with the incarcerated. Theatre in Prison is...
Theatre's Heterotopias
Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.
Locating the Audience
How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theatre is born? These questions and more are the subject of Locating the Audience, the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theatre company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Theatre...
by Paula Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
“Brilliant . . . even more ambitious than Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive . . . it covers more ground and is bolder in its storytelling. Vogel’s language is at its most poetic, eloquent and elegiac. In fact, its vivid imagery rivals the prose style of any great American short story writer. The...
Acting: The First Six Lessons
Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of Stanislavsky’s System in America.
This...
McDowall Plays: 1
Brilliant Adventures; Captain Amazing; Talk Show; Pomona
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This is the first collection from groundbreaking playwright Alistair McDowall*,* "an exceptionally talented and fast-rising writer. Still only in his twenties, this writer is surely going places. Whatever he dreams up next, his name will almost certainly be in lights at the Royal Court soon,...
by Jessica Swale
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
As part of the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, Jessica Swale returns with another dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in the process of devising theatre.
The games will be invaluable to directors and theatre...
Ben Jonson and Theatre
Performance, Practice and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, this book bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's...
The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science
Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman....
Stage Managing and Theatre Etiquette
A Basic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Here is a practical, accessible introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre. Linda Apperson clearly and concisely leads the reader through the procedures and responsibilities of stage management, from auditions to closing night. What is “blocking”? How do you “call” a show? Who...