A Book About The Theater

Author : Rafe Beckley
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782795520

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Open Book Theater Management by Rafe Beckley Pdf

In the world of Fringe (or Off-Off Broadway) theatre, a strong debate has been raging for years - when you're producing a low/no-budget production, how on earth can you make it happen and still treat everyone involved in an open, honest and ethical manner? Where do you stand with profit-share productions when you can't afford to pay Union minimums? Open Book Theatre Management, along with its free online resources of instructional budget spreadsheets, is the first book ever to show you exactly how to mount a theatre production without losing either your integrity or your shirt. It is aimed at actors, directors and producers in the early stages of their careers; drama schools; and further and higher education establishments. The methodologies outlined in the book are transferable across all countries in which arts funding is difficult to secure. The time for going to the Establishment with the begging bowl is over. There need be no more excuses. The author will even show you how to start your own theatre company for only a tenner…

Author : Jordan Tannahill
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770564114

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Theatre of the Unimpressed by Jordan Tannahill Pdf

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, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)

Author : Susan Jonas,Geoffrey S. Proehl,Michael Lupu
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019267108

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Dramaturgy in American Theater by Susan Jonas,Geoffrey S. Proehl,Michael Lupu Pdf

This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dramaturgy as a profession, together with its European antecedents, gives students a sense of historical context. Selections from respected and recognized names in theater provoke student interest and communicate the benefits of those experts' experiences.

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307949721

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The Theater of War by Bryan Doerries Pdf

For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.

Author : Vikram Paralkar
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226547

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Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar Pdf

A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called “otherworldly” and “a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, “as if the crickets had been bribed,” during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have. In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, Night Theater is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.

Author : Virginia Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258105136

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Peggy Finds the Theater by Virginia Hughes Pdf

Author : Richard Christiansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015059253297

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A Theater of Our Own by Richard Christiansen Pdf

Who produced the first stage adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1902-nearly forty years before the movie classic?

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590517406

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Memory Theater by Simon Critchley Pdf

From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant précis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley’s office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend’s prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo’s sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death—the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life.

Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752439656

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A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher : Corinthian Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Drama
ISBN : OSU:32435003070398

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A Book about the Theater by Brander Matthews Pdf

Author : Mordecai Gorelik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCAL:B4379755

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New Theatres for Old by Mordecai Gorelik Pdf

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Palo Alto, Calif. : Mayfield Pub.
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874844592

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Theatre by Robert Cohen Pdf

Author : Robert Pasolli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005408789

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A Book on the Open Theatre by Robert Pasolli Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shell Education
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425890318

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Reader's Theater Scripts: Improve Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Grade 5 (Book with Transparencies) by Anonim Pdf

Improve Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. Motivate students and improve fluency with fun repeated reading.

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490200704

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In Search of Theater by Eric Bentley Pdf