Theatre category: 6638 books
by Catherine Silverstone
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence...
The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde
Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The touch and movement senses have a large place in the modern arts. This is widely discussed and celebrated, often enough as if it represents a breakthrough in a primarily visual age. This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism...
by Andreas Serafim
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be separated...
Direction
Readings in Theatre Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day.
Political Performance in Syria
From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities. In doing so, the manuscript situates the current use of performance and theatre by artists of the Syrian Revolution within a long history of political contestation.
Spectacle of Empire
Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman.
Captive Audience
Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays...
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
William Brown's African and American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded...
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"James F. Wilson uncovers fascinating new material on the Harlem Renaissance, shedding light on the oft-forgotten gay and lesbian contributions to the era's creativity and Civil Rights. Extremely well researched, compellingly written, and highly informative."
---David Krasner, author of...
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie
The Formation of Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least under me, the people knew what they were tightening their belts for.
Anders Lustgarten's epic...
by Günter Berghaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the pull of commercial theatre, gallery and concert-hall circuits? How did performance artists respond to new technological developments?
Placing...
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by Matthew Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The book examines in specific detail every Broadway musical which opened from the 1969 fall season through the 1979 season. The 1970s was an exciting decade in theatre. In addition to shows by Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd) and the concept musicals, there...