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Author : John Kennedy Melling
Publisher : Aylesbury : Shire Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCAL:B5067616
Author : Matthew Franks
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812297416
Subscription Theater asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort adding their names to subscription lists. Shining a spotlight on private play-producing clubs, public repertory theaters, amateur drama groups, and theatrical magazines, Matthew Franks locates subscription theaters in a vast constellation of civic subscription initiatives, ranging from voluntary schools and workers' hospitals to soldiers' memorials and Diamond Jubilee funds. Across these enterprises, Franks argues, subscribers created their own spaces for performing social roles from which they had long been excluded. Whether by undermining the authority of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and London's commercial theater producers, or by extending rights to disenfranchised women and property-less men, a diverse cast of subscribers including typists, plumbers, and maids acted as political representatives for their fellow citizens, both inside the theater and far beyond it. Citizens prized a "democratic" or "representative" subscription list as an end in itself, and such lists set the stage for the eventual public subsidy of subscription endeavors. Subscription Theater points to the importance of printed ephemera such as programs, tickets, and prospectuses in questioning any assumption that theatrical collectivity is confined to the live performance event. Drawing on new media as well as old, Franks uses a database of over 23,000 stage productions to reveal that subscribers introduced nearly a third of the plays that were most frequently revived between 1890 and the mid-twentieth century, as well as nearly half of all new translations, and they were instrumental in staging the work of such writers as Shaw and Ibsen, whose plays featured subscription lists as a plot point or prop. Although subscribers often are blamed for being a conservative force in theater, Franks demonstrates that they have been responsible for how we value audience and repertoire today, and their history offers a new account of the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.
Author : Michael Twyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787799
The joy of finding an old box in the attic filled with postcards, invitations, theater programs, laundry lists, and pay stubs is discovering the stories hidden within them. The paper trails of our lives -- or ephemera -- may hold sentimental value, reminding us of great grandparents. They chronicle social history. They can be valuable as collectibles or antiques. But the greatest pleasure is that these ordinary documents can reconstruct with uncanny immediacy the drama of day-to-day life. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera is the first work of its kind, providing an unparalleled sourcebook with over 400 entries that cover all aspects of everyday documents and artifacts, from bookmarks to birth certificates to lighthouse dues papers. Continuing a tradition that started in the Victorian era, when disposable paper items such as trade cards, die-cuts and greeting cards were accumulated to paste into scrap books, expert Maurice Rickards has compiled an enormous range of paper collectibles from the obscure to the commonplace. His artifacts come from around the world and include such throw-away items as cigarette packs and crate labels as well as the ubiquitous faxes, parking tickets, and phone cards of daily life. As this major new reference shows, simple slips of paper can speak volumes about status, taste, customs, and taboos, revealing the very roots of popular culture.
Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128372757
A survey of the types of popular street literature from the earliest almanack recorded at Cambridge to the latest contemporary folk festival poster.
Author : Gerda Cammaer,Zoë Druick
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773544475
An investigation of the challenges faced by Canadian cinema in the digital age.
Author : Bernard Karpel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015016817689
Author : O. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137099617
History, they say, has a filthy tongue. In the case of colonial theatre in America, what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theatre and not its producers. Yet this does not account for the flourishing theatrical circuit established between 1760 and 1776. This study explores the culture's social support of the theatre.
Author : Julie Stone Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199262160
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.
Author : Anne Dean
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635482
Above all, Wilson wants to tell the truth; for him, reality is almost - but not quite - enough. By creating his drama out of his own rich life experiences, he finds little need to exaggerate. Eugene Ionesco once observed that one discovers more than one invents, and that invention is really discovery or rediscovery.
Author : Howard Brenton
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573690383
This fascinating drama, staged to acclaim in London and New York, has in its cast of characters Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Goodwin. The play is about radicalism artistic, political and more. Taking place in Italy, it concerns the characters' various ideas about radical politics and free love. Along the way, a number of serious questions are raised, not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to be done in by their reprehensible characters. At the end of the play Byron attends the cremation of Shelley on the beach at Viareggio and delivers a stunning ovation over the pyre: "Burn him. Burn us all. A great big bloody beautiful fire."
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587299933
In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City’s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month’s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overview of contemporary French theatre. Situating many of the nearly 150 stage pieces he attended within contexts and timeframes that stretch backward and forward over a number of years, he reveals French theatre during the first decade of the twenty-first century to be remarkably vital, inclined toward both innovation and concern for its audience, and as open to international influence as it is respectful of national tradition. French Theatre Today provides a seamless mix of critical analysis with lively description, theoretical considerations with reflexive remarks by the theatremakers themselves, and matters of current French and American cultural politics. In the first part, “New York,” Turk offers close-ups of French theatre works singled out during the ACT FRENCH festival for their presumed attractiveness to American audiences and critics. The second part, “Paris,” depicts a more expansive range of French theatre pieces as they play out on their own soil. In the third part, “Avignon,” Turk captures the subject within a more fluid context that is, most interestingly, both eminently French and resolutely international. The Paris and Avignon chapters contain valuable and well-informed contextual and background information as well as descriptions of the milieus of the Avignon Festival and the various neighborhoods in Paris where he attended performances, information that readers cannot find easily elsewhere. Finally, in the spirit of inclusiveness that characterizes so much new French theatre and to give a representative account of his own experiences as a spectator, Turk rounds out his survey with observations on Paris’s lively opera scene and France’s wealth of circus entertainments, both traditional and newly envisioned. With his shrewd assessments of contemporary French theatre, Turk conveys an excitement and an affection for his topic destined to arouse similar responses in his readers. His book’s freshness and openness will reward theatre enthusiasts who are curious about an aspect of French culture that is inadequately known in this country, veteran scholars and students of contemporary world theatre, and those American theatre professionals who have the ultimate authority and good fortune to determine which new French works will reach audiences on these shores.
Author : Maurice Rickards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : IND:32000007310354
"Ephemera: "printed or handwritten items, produced for short-term use and, generally, for disposal," are tickets, labels, calling cards, trade cards, menus, posters, billheads, packages, throwaways of all kinds. Colorful, various, rich in nostalgia, they are irresistible to collectors, in part because as "collectibles" they are a novelty and can be had practically free for the picking up. This book, the first general guide to ephemera for the American collector, shows a variety of types, tells where to find ephemera, how to collect, what's good and what's bad ephemera, what ephemera may be worth. A delightful and unique introduction to a fascinating field."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025903837
A biographical record of contemporary achievement together with a key to the location of the original biographical notes.
Author : John Kinross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015030658275
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106017451805