Institutional Theatrics

Author : Brandon Woolf
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810143579

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Institutional Theatrics by Brandon Woolf Pdf

Shortlist, 2021 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize In a city struggling to determine just how neoliberal it can afford to be, what kinds of performing arts practices and institutions are necessary—and why? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle long-standing traditions of state‐subsidized theater even as the city has redefined itself as a global arts epicenter. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways theater artists have responded to these shifts and crises both on- and offstage, offering a method for rethinking the theater as a vital public institution. What is the future of the German theater, grounded historically in large ensembles, extensive repertoires, and auteur directors? Examining the restructuring of Berlin’s theatrical landscape and most prominent performance venues, Brandon Woolf argues that cultural policy is not simply the delegation and distribution of funds. Instead, policy should be thought of as an artistic practice of institutional imagination. Woolf demonstrates how performance can critique its patron institutions in order to transform the relations between the stage and the state, between the theater and the infrastructures of its support. Bold, nuanced, and rigorously documented, Institutional Theatrics offers new insights about art, its administration, and the forces that influence cultural production.

Author : Bertram D. Ashe,Ilka Saal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295746654

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Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination by Bertram D. Ashe,Ilka Saal Pdf

From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging “alternate takes” on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts. They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful refiguring of slavery’s prevailing tropes, narratives, and images. A V Ethel Willis White Book

Author : Alex Gottesman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041684

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Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens by Alex Gottesman Pdf

This book examines 'informal' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more 'formal' politics of assembly and courts.

Author : Jonas Tinius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009321167

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State of the Arts by Jonas Tinius Pdf

This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius' fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.

Author : Leslie Hawkins Damasceno
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325955

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Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho by Leslie Hawkins Damasceno Pdf

In his work he constantly appraised his own dramatic development and the potential of his theatrical activity, in light of cultural and political possibilities, to affect social change.

Author : Michael Meeuwis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472131471

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Everyone's Theater by Michael Meeuwis Pdf

Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire

Author : Jeanne Marie Colleran,Jenny S. Spencer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472066714

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Staging Resistance by Jeanne Marie Colleran,Jenny S. Spencer Pdf

Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. This consistently challenging collection describes the art of change confronting the actual processes of change. 17 photos.

Author : Dunbar H. Ogden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520329676

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Performance Dynamics and the Amsterdam Werkteater by Dunbar H. Ogden Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472106074

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Theater in Israel by Linda Ben-Zvi Pdf

The first book-length investigation of theater and drama in Israel

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00186271282

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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Justification of the budget estimates: Indian Health by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119518111

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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Todd London
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781559364256

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An Ideal Theater by Todd London Pdf

An inspiring collection of the dreams and visions of the founders of the American theatre movement.

Author : Alisa Zhulina
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810146365

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Theater of Capital by Alisa Zhulina Pdf

Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siècle playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept. Acutely aware of their complicity in the system they sought to challenge, these playwrights staged economic questions as moral and political concerns, using their plays to explore the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, and others within the boundaries of bourgeois theater. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life reveals the prescient and unsettling visions of life in a new financial and societal reality in now-canonical plays such as A Doll’s House, Miss Julie, and The Cherry Orchard, as well as in lesser-known and long-overlooked works. This wide-ranging study prompts us to reevaluate modern drama and its legacy for the urgent economic and political questions that haunt our present moment.

Author : Lisa Mulcahy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781621535256

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Building the Successful Theater Company by Lisa Mulcahy Pdf

What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country’s most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company. Producers, stage managers, directors—anyone dreaming of running a theater troupe—will benefit from the practical guidance, amusing anecdotes, and sincere advice in this peek behind the curtains of the often difficult, always seductive, profession of theater. With five additional companies profiled in this fully revised third edition, Building a Successful Theater Company features: •The LABrynth Theater Company •New Paradise Laboratories •National Theatre of the Deaf •Shotgun Players •Asian-American Theatre Company •Steppenwolf Theater Company •The Pasadena Playhouse •La Jolla Playhouse •Chicago City Limits •Berkeley Repertory Theatre •Arena Stage’s The Living Stage Theatre Company •Mixed Blood Theatre Company •Horizons Theatre •Wheelock Family Theatre •L.A. Theatre Works •A Traveling Jewish Theatre •Jean Cocteau Repertory •Bailiwick Repertory •New Repertory Theatre New chapters cover funding and financial aspects, maximizing a company's potential through powerful social media use, and creating successful partnerships by teaming up with corporate sponsors and establishing artistic collaborations. Stage veterans reveal advice on everything from locating performance space, to developing a business plan, to and rehearsing and publicizing productions in this invaluable guide to creating or growing a theater company. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : Günther Heeg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000850505

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Transcultural Theater by Günther Heeg Pdf

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this book makes a powerful plea for the art of theater as a medium of conviviality with (the) foreign(er) that should not be underestimated. This study contributes to transcultural experience, artistic practice, and education in the medium of theater. The book’s investigation extends far into space and time and pays particular attention to the relationship between aesthetic experience, artistic practice, and academic representation. This book is for scholars and students as well as for all those working in the cultural field, especially in the field of cultural transfer.