Alchemies Of Theater

Author : Robert Viagas
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476849485

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The Alchemy of Theatre - The Divine Science by Robert Viagas Pdf

(Applause Books). Featuring 28 of the top talents on Broadway! The Alchemy of Theatre lets the top talents in every theatrical field, from producing and writing to publicity and makeup, share their hard-earned wisdom. They speak on how to achieve success in an environment where giant egos are locked up together under mounting financial and emotional pressure, and are expected to deliver greatness. In short, this book is a how-to manual of collaboration by the professionals who do it best. Among those who have packed their lively essays with real-world stories of experience on legendary productions are directors Harold Prince, Susan Stroman, and George C. Wolfe; playwrights Wendy Wasserstein, recently deceased, and Edward Albee; stars Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell; set designer Robin Wagner; songwriter Cy Coleman, in one of his last writing efforts before his death; costume designer William Ivey Long; producer Rocco Landesman; theatre operator Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of The Shubert Organization; playwright and librettist Terrence McNally; lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Musical Director Paul Gemignani; and more than a dozen more. This book is nothing but true-life stories of how these precepts work in real life for some of the most talented people alive. "Every narrative gives an inside look at what makes theater magical and allows a performance to come together. For those who love the theater, this book is essential." Library Journal

Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Alchemy in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106005109092

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Theatre and Alchemy by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp Pdf

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795352331

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Happy Alchemy by Robertson Davies Pdf

The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection. Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies’ writings—including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In this eclectic volume, Davies shares his many musings on music, theatre, opera, and more. These pieces, many of them published here for the first time, touch on topics from Greek tragedy to Scottish Folklore and from Lewis Carroll to Carl Jung.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : M&S
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0771025858

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Happy Alchemy by Robertson Davies Pdf

The Happy Alchemy in this delightful book blends witty entertainment with thought-provoking instruction. Touching on everything from Shakespeare’s Falstaff to Canada’s constitutional wrangles (“our own version of a civil war”) and from “How I Write a Book” to Richard Wagner, “that extraordinary genius and dreadful crook,” this is in every way a worthy companion to The Merry Heart. This book also draws on the polished but unpublished speeches, book reviews, and other articles that Robertson Davies left behind. Here, too, the book’s editors, Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, have produced tantalizing quotes from his private diaries to help introduce each of the book’s thirty-three pieces of prose (and verse, libretto, and even screenplay). Most of the pieces deal with the theatre – from the day-long ancient Greek drama festivals “with an audience of 17,000 Athenians looking on,” through Shakespeare’s theatre and on to Davies’ own youthful “Prologue to The Good Natur’d Man” (accepted at the Old Vic as pure Oliver Goldsmith), to his beloved nineteenth-century theatre and melodrama. Since, in his words, “melodrama lives in our opera houses,” it is a short step from there to his passion for opera and from Verdi to the surprising confessions of “My Musical Career.” Many readers will be astonished by his knowledgeable enthusiasm for folk-song; few by his acknowledgement of his great debt to C.G. Jung in his work. At the end of this stimulating and revealing book he returns to his love of the theatre and his admiration for the great playwrights, summed up in his haunting final line “…and I applaud them across the centuries.” Across the years the distinctive, absolutely unmistakable voice of Robertson Davies will continue to ring out from these pages.

Author : Will Weigler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Epiphanies
ISBN : 155058586X

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The Alchemy of Astonishment by Will Weigler Pdf

Have you ever seen a single moment in a play or film that you'll never forget something that made the whole audience gasp and gave you an unexpected insight? When theatre director Will Weigler analyzed nearly 100 stories about these kinds of unforgettable moments in performance, he realized that even though the plays were very different, there was an unmistakable pattern. They all had one thing in common. His new book, The Alchemy of Astonishment, is a fascinating account of precisely how theatre makes an impact on an audience. Will Weigler and graphic designer Kit Maloney have also created a companion deck of 55 cards to make it easier to learn and apply the theatrical vocabulary of staging strategies presented in the book.To purchase please visit https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/press/books/ordering/

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476849492

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The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science by Anonim Pdf

Foreword by Jeremy Irons preface by Adrian Lyne. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov Schiff tells the astounding story behind the most controversial movie of our time. 75 movie stills.ÞÞ Like Nabokov's novel it is an eloquent tragedy laced with wit and a serious disturbing work of art... ä ÊThe New York TimesÊ

Author : Dick Higgins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472056781

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Alchemies of Theater by Dick Higgins Pdf

Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater

Author : Will Weigler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Epiphanies
ISBN : 0000104892

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The Alchemy of Astonishment by Will Weigler Pdf

Author : Mirella Schino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000658668

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Alchemists of the Stage by Mirella Schino Pdf

What is a theatre laboratory? Why a theatre laboratory? This book tries to answer these questions focusing on the experiences and theories, the visions and the techniques, the differences and similarities of European theatre laboratories in the twentieth century. It studies in depth the Studios of Stanislavski and Meyerhold, the school of Decroux, the Teatr Laboratorium of Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen, as well as Eugenio Barba's Odin Teatret. Theatre laboratories embody a theatre practice which defies the demands and fashions of the times, the usual ways of production and the sensible functions which stage art enjoys in our society. It is a theatre which refuses to be only art and whose radical research forges new conditions with a view to changing both the actor and the spectator. This research transforms theatrical craft into a laboratory which has been compared to the laboratory of the alchemists, who worked not on material but on substance. The alchemists of the stage did not operate only on forms and styles, but mainly on the living matter of the theatre: the actor, seen not just as an artist but above all as a representative of a new human being. Laboratory theatres have rarely been at the centre of the news. Yet their underground activity has influenced theatre history. Without them, the same idea of theatre, as it has been shaped in the course of the twentieth century, would have been different. In this book Mirella Schino recounts, as in a novel, the vicissitudes of a group of practitioners and scholars who try to uncover the technical, political and spiritual perspectives behind the word laboratory when applied to the theatre.

Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005485605

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The Chemical Theatre by Charles Nicholl Pdf

Author : Bob Carlton
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573695997

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Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton Pdf

Inspired by Shakepeare's The Tempest, this juke box musical is packed with rock 'n' roll classics such as Heard it Through the Grapevine, Young Girl, Good Vibrations, and Gloria. Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D'Illyria where a sci fi version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero's Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Costume design
ISBN : 0921125194

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Dross Into Gold by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter H. Marshall
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Holy Roman Empire
ISBN : 9780771056918

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The Theatre of the World by Peter H. Marshall Pdf

A captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science, and religion at the court of the doomed dreamer Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague. At the end of the sixteenth century, the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The Theatre of the World is the enchanting story of Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great talents and minds of his times than in the exercise of his power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around him a galaxy of famous figures: the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the German mathematician Johannes Kepler, and the English magus John Dee. Entranced, like Hamlet, by the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions. He faced the threats of religious discord and the Ottoman Empire, along with deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result, he lost his empire and nearly his sanity, but he enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years War. "The Theatre of the World" is a beguiling and dramatic human story filled with angels and devils, high art and low cunning, talismans and stars. It offers a captivating perspective on a pivotal moment in the history of Western Civilization. "From the Hardcover edition."

Author : Dick Higgins,Bonnie Marranca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472221698

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Alchemies of Theater by Dick Higgins,Bonnie Marranca Pdf

In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in Japan. Yet as important as Higgins's work has been to historians of the American avant-garde, relatively little attention has been paid to his radical theatrical vision. Alchemies of Theater brings together a broad selection of Higgins's writings and theater-related work, much of it unpublished or long out of print, including plays and performance scores, drawings, and writings on theater and performance. As this book demonstrates, Higgins deconstructed the drama long before it became a project of theater; undercut the traditional roles of author and director; created what is now considered "devised" theater; pioneered the use of media in theater, writing the first electronic opera; and was a precursor in deconstruction and "postdramatic" avant-garde traditions. His Intermedia manifesto offered a sweeping view of interdisciplinarity-in effect, a new arts ecology.

Author : Bruce Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780879104351

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Actor's Alchemy by Bruce Miller Pdf

An actor's script is both a gold mine, and the map to discovering it: if properly read, a script will reveal its riches to you. Unfortunately, most actors never learn to efficiently read the map, or master how to convert what they find in a script into playable gold. Why? Because this aspect of the acting process is seldom taught in a simple and tangible way in the classroom or studio. Acting can – and should – be more than guesswork and instinct. Actor's Alchemy: Finding the Gold in Your Script examines the relationship between the script and what an actor ultimately does on the stage or on screen. Here is a straightforward guide filled with useful information to help actors learn to use their scripts in a specific and analytical way to solve the problems of the scene and bring their elusive characters to life. In learning how to decipher the script, actors will be equipped to make the choices that lead to delivering a gold performance.