Theatre category: 6638 books
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd
Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of...
by Kenneth Tynan, Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.
This volume is an edited selection of theatre criticism by one of the most significant and influential writers on British theatre. Spanning the years 1944...
The Scenes We Made
An Oral History of Experimental Theatre in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Mumbai’s theatre scene is a dynamic and creative space that has continuously inspired young theatre practitioners from the 1960s to the present day. It is filled with lessons learned and unlearned, techniques invented and reinvented. It is a space in which experimentation constantly takes place—where,...
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979
CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, 7:84 Theatre Companies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
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...
by Jane De Gay, Elizbeth Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Addressing issues of feminism and representation, this book provides a fresh and thorough consideration of the status and potential of Women's theatre today.The authors explore a range of different approaches to the languages of theatre, including translation and interpretation of the art form, along...
by Lisa Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country’s most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company. Producers, stage managers, directors-anyone...
by Bill Rauch, Alison Carey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
• A collection of essays written by theatre practitioners and experts with track records of successful audience engagement
• Discusses findings from TCG's ongoing assessments and research of the field, as well as findings from cross-disciplinary sources
• Explores current audience...
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet...
Bakhtin and Theatre
Dialogues with Stanislavski, Meyerhold and Grotowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is ‘stopped being a serious genre’ after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality, and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice?
Bakhtin...
Musicality in Theatre
Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the...
Sacred Theatre
Theatre & Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The notion of sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, and Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process and performance of drama. The volume considers the definition of the terms...
by Guido Böhm
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: B (2,0), University of Glasgow (Department of Theatre Studies), 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: What nowadays is known as 'Scottish National Theatre' did not exist one hundred years ago. Though...