Theatre category: 6638 books
Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White
Governing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s. In 1961 the board of governors rejected a proposal to include the world premiere of White’s first major play ‘The Ham Funeral’...
Black British Theatre Pioneers
Yvonne Brewster and the First Generation of Actors, Playwrights and Other Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A Jamaican-born stage director, teacher and writer Yvonne Brewster stands among the most prominent British artists of Afro-Caribbean cultural heritage. A member of the Order of the British Empire, she co-founded Talawa, Britain’s foremost black-led theatre company, as well as The Barn, Jamaica’s...
Opening Act, The
Canadian Theatre History 1945–1956
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The conventional opinion is that professional Canadian theatre began in 1953 with the founding of the Stratford Festival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be, when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratford were professional Canadian actors. To answer this question, McNicoll delves...
British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994
Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from...
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre
The First Four Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
British theatre is booming. London’s Theatreland is an economic powerhouse and British actors are the toast of Hollywood. But where did it all start and how did we get here?
To find out we time travel back four hundred years when there was not a single theatre in the land. This is where the...
by Judith Malina
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years.' – CHOICE
Judith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally...
Popular Theatre in Political Culture
Britain and Canada in focus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces the development of various types of community...
by Daniel Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disaster.
This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre’s 19th-century origins, through false dawns in the early 1900s, and on to its hard-fought...
by Todd Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose is three-fold. First, it provides a comprehensive biography and account of the performance and publication of Arne’s...
Theatre and Everyday Life
An Ethics of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which...
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Cultivating the People
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on:
*the politics of...
Memos from a Theatre Lab
Exploring what immersive theatre 'does'
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
What does Immersive Theatre ‘do’?
By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme – one an ‘immersive’ experience and the other a more conventional theatrical production – Nandita Dinesh explores the ways in which theatrical form impacts upon actors and audiences. An...
Historical Dictionary of British Theatre
Early Period
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
British theatre has a greater tradition than any other, having started all the way back in 1311 and still going strong today. But that is too much for one book to cover, so this volume deals with early theatre and has a cut-off date in 1899. Still, this is almost six centuries, centuries during which...
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture
From Simulation to Embeddedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.
The book examines...