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“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties

Author : Tony Lidington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000686142

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“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties by Tony Lidington Pdf

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert parties and their popular performance heritage. It will provide, for the first time, a definition of the pierrot troupe and its evolution from the roots of European popular traditions such as the commedia dell’arte and minstrelsy, to links between music hall and contemporary popular culture. Tony Lidington will explore how pierrot troupes grew from a single idea into a major international cultural industry and how it boosted morale and national identity during the two World Wars, before sublimating into contemporary pop music and comedy. Tony’s continuing practice as research provides an experiential framework for the historical and ethnographic analysis of the form. This book will be of vital interest to students, researchers, and performers of outdoor (al fresco) arts, clowning and comedy, minstrelsy, vernacular music-making and music hall.

"Don't Forget The Pierrots!''

Author : Tony Lidington
Publisher : Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367489201

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"Don't Forget The Pierrots!'' by Tony Lidington Pdf

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert parties and their popular performance heritage. It will provide, for the first time, a definition of the pierrot troupe and its evolution from the roots of European popular traditions such as the commedia dell'arte and minstrelsy, to links between music hall and contemporary popular culture. Tony Lidington will explore how pierrot troupes grew from a single idea to a major international cultural industry and how it boosted morale and national identity during the two World Wars, before sublimating into contemporary pop music and comedy. Tony's continuing practice as research provides an experiential framework for the historical and ethnographic analysis of the form. This book will be of vital interest to students, researchers, and performers of outdoor (al fresco) arts, clowning & comedy, minstrelsy, vernacular music-making, and music hall.

“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties

Author : Tony Lidington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000686197

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“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties by Tony Lidington Pdf

• The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as well as French mime and Italian commedia dell’arte roots. • Theatre history is an essential part of theatre and drama courses across the UK and would be recommended reading. • There is no comparable book which makes critical analysis of British pierrot troupes and concert parties in existence – the only ones that do exist on the specific topic are written as reminiscence and anecdote.

Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910

Author : Paul Fryer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681665

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Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910 by Paul Fryer Pdf

This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "blockbusters" of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon of the "smash hit" show is not restricted to modern Broadway. This is a world that encompassed the ground-breaking stage technology of Ben Hur, the wide political impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the sheer creative originality of L'Enfant Prodigue. Supporting the "star" system, productions featured some of the greatest names of the period - Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, James O'Neill and Dion Boucicault. This was the very dawning of a new media age, which saw many of the productions transfer to the new world of silent cinema for the very first time

Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance

Author : Telory D Arendell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000739091

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Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance by Telory D Arendell Pdf

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Living Newspapers through Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble and Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre to the racially inflected commentary of Luis Valdez’s Teatro Campesino and Ariane Mnouchkine’s collaboration with Théâtre de Soleil. This book explores the impact of devised theatre on social practice and analyzes Goat Island’s use of Pina Bausch’s gestural movement, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed in Giving Voice, Anna Deavere Smith’s devised envelope for Verbatim Theatre, The Tectonic Theatre Project’s moment work, Teya Sepinuck’s Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron’s use of Lecoq mime to build complex physical theatre scripts, and The Riot Group’s musical arrangement of collaborative devised text. Included are a foreword by Allen J. Kuharski and three devised plays by Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron, and The Riot Group. Replete with interviews from the initial Pig Iron collaborators on subjects of writing, directing, choreographing, teaching, and developing a pedagogical platform that supports devised theatre.

Mothering Performance

Author : Lena Šimić,Emily Underwood-Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000785166

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Mothering Performance by Lena Šimić,Emily Underwood-Lee Pdf

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; it is situated in a specific place, and it is undertaken by specific bodies, marked by experience and context. The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. Presented in three sections, Exchange, Practice, and Solidarity, the book includes international contributions from scholars and artists covering topics including ecology, migration, race, class, history, incarceration, mental health, domestic violence, intergenerational exchange, childcare, and peacebuilding. The collection gathers diverse maternal performance practices and methodologies which address aesthetics, dramaturgy, activism, pregnancy, everyday mothering, and menopause. The book is a great read for artists, maternal health and care professionals, and scholars. Researchers with an interest in feminist performance and motherhood, within the disciplines of performance studies, maternal studies, and women’s studies, and all those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of maternal experience, will find much of interest. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by University of South Wales

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor

Author : Joey Orr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000787399

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A Sourcebook of Performance Labor by Joey Orr Pdf

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works. This book reorients well-known works of contemporary performance and social practice around the workers who have shaped, enacted, and supported them. It emerges from perspectives on maintenance, care, affective labor, and the knowledges created and preserved through gesture and intersubjectivity. This compilation of interviews is filled with the voices of collaborators in notable works attributed to established contemporary artists, including Francis Alÿs, Tania Bruguera, Suzanne Lacy, Ernesto Pujol, Asad Raza, Dread Scott, and Tino Sehgal. In the spirit of the artworks under discussion, this book reinvests in the possibilities for art as a collective effort to explore new ways of finding ourselves in others and others in ourselves. The Sourcebook collection is a contribution for further theorizing a largely unaddressed perspective in contemporary art. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies and art history.

Martin Crimp’s Power Plays

Author : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000655292

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Martin Crimp’s Power Plays by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

Appropriations of Irish Drama in Modern Korean Nationalist Theatre

Author : Hunam Yun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000653236

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Appropriations of Irish Drama in Modern Korean Nationalist Theatre by Hunam Yun Pdf

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised. By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this study shows how the intervention of the competing agents – both the colonisers and the colonised – formulates the strategies of representation or empowerment in the rival claims of the translation field. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, translation studies, and Asian studies.

Playwriting in Europe

Author : Margherita Laera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000653458

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Playwriting in Europe by Margherita Laera Pdf

This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is for you. Through questionnaires and one-to-one interviews with key stakeholders, Dr Laera collects qualitative and quantitative data about how each national theatre culture supports living dramatists, what conventions drive the production and translation (or lack thereof) of contemporary plays, and what perceptions are held by gatekeepers, theatre-makers and other cultural operators about the theatre system in which they work. Through country-by-country descriptions and analyses; interviews with playwrights, translators, directors and gatekeepers; a list of key facts and best practices; and a rigorous assessment of its methodologies, this volume is indispensable for those interested in contemporary European theatre practice.

Now It Can Be Told

Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664123152

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Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs Pdf

"Now It Can Be Told" by Philip Gibbs is a book about World War I. In this book, the author provides insight into some aspects of the war that the world should know and remember as a warning of what will happen again if a heritage of evil and folly is not cut out of the hearts of people. The book also describes the reality of modern warfare, not only as it appeared to British soldiers but to soldiers on all fronts where conditions were the same.

The Phlebotomist

Author : Ella Road
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786824547

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The Phlebotomist by Ella Road Pdf

Bea meets Aaron. He's intelligent, handsome, makes her laugh and, most importantly, has a high rating on his genetic profile. What's not to like? Char is on the brink of landing her dream job and has big plans to start a family - but her blood rating threatens it all. In a world where future happiness depends on a single, inescapable blood test – which dictates everything from credit rating to dating prospects - how far will people go to beat the system and let nature take its course? The Phlebotomist questions the value we place on one another, whether knowledge really is power, and if it's truly possible for love to conquer all.

My Life

Author : Isadora Duncan
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338033901

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My Life by Isadora Duncan Pdf

This autobiography chronicles the life and groundbreaking artistry of Angela Isadora Duncan, an influential American dancer and choreographer. From her humble beginnings in San Francisco to her rise to fame in Western Europe and the United States, Duncan revolutionized contemporary dance with her unique vision and improvisational style. As she traveled the world, she drew inspiration from Greek art and captivated audiences with her mesmerizing performances. This intimate memoir unveils the triumphs, struggles, and extraordinary spirit of a true pioneer.

The Mysteries of New Orleans

Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801868823

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The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein Pdf

"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason -- a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman -- for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

Fair Play

Author : Ella Road
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350291645

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Fair Play by Ella Road Pdf

The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They've got a chance to be champions. But at what cost? When Ann joins Sophie's running club she's thrown into a world of regimented training and pure focus. The two girls couldn't be more different, but soon their shared passion makes them inseparable – dreaming in lanes and lap-times, waking up picturing Olympic medals, each day stronger and faster... But set head to head in the run up to the World Championships, they find themselves and their friendship put to the ultimate test. As their relationships, their bodies and their very identities are pulled into public scrutiny, does being exceptional come at too high a price? A gripping exploration of the underside of women's athletics, Fair Play is the new work from Ella Road (The Phlebotomist) – 'the most promising young playwright in Britain' (The Telegraph). This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Bush Theatre, London, in December 2021.