Theatre category: 6638 books
Yankee Theatre
The Image of America on the Stage, 1825–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment. In cultures from across the world theatrical performance has long been a site for both the representation and support of imperialism, and resistance and rebellion against it....
by Elaine Aston
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook is a helpful, practical guide to theatre-making which explores the different ways of representing gender. Best-selling author, Elaine Aston, takes the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre- from warming up, through workshopped exploration,...
The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique)
Teaching Creative Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers
of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris
remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving...
by john freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Terms like 'postmodern' and 'postdramatic' have their own contested and defended histories, while notions of truth in verbatim theatre are open to serious critical challenge. Theatre writing can result in no words...
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing...
National Theatre Connections 2018
The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and – particularly in the case of Connections – who we are going to be.
Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights....
by Jean M. Mattson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1997
Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The...
Why Theatre Matters
Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative...
Theatre, Time and Temporality: Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics
Melting Clocks and Snapped Elastics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances – in addition to recent writings from physics, philosophy, and...
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights
Making the Radical Palatable
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book* * demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the...
Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre
Populating the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics....
The Theatre of the Bauhaus
The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "theatre of high modernism" and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration...
Essays on Theatre and Change
Towards a Poetics Of
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to – and of – it? How do we envision and frame a fluid reality that moves faster than we can write?
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