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Author : Garry O'Connor
Publisher : London : Pitman
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014617701
Author : Harold Hobson
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : French drama
ISBN : 0405086318
Reprint of a 1953 text that provides a survey of the living masters of the French theater, beginning with an overview of the Parisian stage, and discussing the works of Sartre, Montherlant, Salacrou, and Anouilh.
Author : David Bradby,Annie Sparks
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015040068499
Part one provides an historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968. Part two features a listings guide to major theatre companies, intstitutions, festivals, schools and an A-Z of contemporary playwrights and directors.
Author : Harold Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247154762
Author : Edward Baron Turk
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Philip Tomlinson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042013559
Arising from the activities of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century French Theatre, this volume proposes a selection of eighteen essays by internationally renowned scholars aimed at all those who value and work with the theatre of seventeenth-century France, whether in teaching, research or performance. Frequently seeking out the interfaces of these areas, the essays cover historiography (including that of opera), the theory and practice of textual editing, visualizing - in terms of both theatre architecture and the significance of playtext illustration -, approaches to study and research (including the most recent applications of computer technology), and performance studies which relate the classical canon to contemporary French and other cultures. Always suggesting new directions, challenging the epistemological bases of the very concept of French classical theatre, the essays provide a snapshot of scholarship in the field at the dawn of a new millennium, and offer an ideal opportunity to reassess its past whilst looking to its future. blurb van Faux 205 - Tomlinson
Author : Harold Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Franse drama
ISBN : OCLC:122417985
Author : Annie Sparks,Annie Stephenson,David Bradby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408148884
A invaluable survey of French theatre since 1968 Mise en Scène is a book in two parts. The first half is a probing look at French theatre now, providing an historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968. It explores playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Michel Vinaver and Bernard-Marie Koltès and directors of international reputation such as Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Roger Planchon, Antoine Vitez, Patrice Chereau and Ariane Mnouchkine. The second part of Mise en Scène features a comprehensive listings guide to major theatre companies, insitutions, festivals, training schools and invaluable A-Z profiles of contemporary playwrights and directors from France.
Author : Motley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0527017221
Author : Germaine Brée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOM:39015008615240
Author : C. Finburgh,C. Lavery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230305663
This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.
Author : Hélène Harvitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : French drama
ISBN : UOM:39015030083714
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Dramatists, French
ISBN : 033337259X
Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : French drama
ISBN : 0333176472
Author : William Driver Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521230136
This 1997 book covers the period which saw the establishment in France of a centralized official theatre - not only the Comédie-Française (the first 'national' theatre), but an Italian theatre and a state opera; the often subversive independent theatres are also discussed. Nearly 1,000 documents deal with censorship and other aspects of external control, company management, the acting profession, dramatic theory and criticism, theatre architecture, settings and costumes, audience composition and behaviour. Over 120 pictorial documents - architectural drawings, technical engravings, frontispieces, portraits, etc. - provide a visual dimension where relevant. A full linking narrative and a copious bibliography help to make this an important reference work and a valuable research tool.
