Theatre category: 6638 books
Freeing the Natural Voice
Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language (Revised & Expanded)
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft! Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by...
From Fire to Flood
A History of Theatre in Manitoba
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Theatre as we know it started in Manitoba almost a century and a half ago. During that time it has produced some shining moments, some unforgettable characters, and some great stories: how two visionaries, Tom Hendry and John Hirsch, convinced Manitoba to embrace a theatre centre that became a model...
Theatre of the Unimpressed
In Search of Vital Drama
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later,...
Theatre
Its Art and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Successful theatre relies on a complex interaction of all theatrical elements: script, direction, acting, and design interact in shifting configurations to offer a new work of art at every performance. Examining these relationships often enriches the theatrical experience.
Theatre: Its Art...
by Helen Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre practitioners make to the education of young people. She maps the environments in which theatre and learning meet, and looks at how the educational...
Acting with Grotowski
Theatre as a Field for Experiencing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
‘Zbigniew Cynkutis’ writings constitute invaluable testimony of his work with Jerzy Grotowski during the ‘theatre of productions’ phase and beyond. Cynkutis’ insights elucidate aspects of the Laboratory Theatre’s praxis and provide a unique perspective on the questions most often asked...
Telling the Truth
How to Make Verbatim Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
Verbatim theatre is fashioned from words actually spoken by real people in real situations, and reproduced by actors in performance. An increasingly influential form of theatre, it...
Theatre in the Dark
Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing...
A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States
Origins to 1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Hispanic theatre flourished in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the Second World War—a fact that few theatre historians know. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940 is the very first study of this rich tradition, filled with details...
Nomadic Theatre
Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of nomadic theatre. They are also theatre's response to life in the 21st century, which is increasingly marked by the mobility of people, information, technologies...
by Helen Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre practitioners make to the education of young people. She maps the environments in which theatre and learning meet, and looks at how the educational...
Modernization of Asian Theatres
Process and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is very limited and often surprisingly...
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Volume 1: Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This new paperback edition of the The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided...
by James Yarker, Dr Mark Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Since it was founded in 1991, British theatre company Stan's Cafe has garnered an international reputation for artistic innovation, and prolific, eclectic performance projects. Their work has toured nationally and internationally, with 2003's Of All The People In All The World having been performed...