New Directions In Theatre

Author : Joan Lazarus
Publisher : Heinemann Drama
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059286305

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Signs of Change by Joan Lazarus Pdf

In the world of secondary theatre education, the impetus for change can arise at any moment because the needs of our adolescents and the conditions under which we teach them are in constant motion. How do successful theatre teachers keep pace with change while continuing to create student-centered, life-changing educational experiences? As a veteran theatre educator, Joan Lazarus recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all answer; that's why, in researching Signs of Change, she interviewed 100 different members of the field to see how real teachers cope with the shifting demands of theatre education. Lazarus gives you a glimpse of active, dynamic professionals in motion-hurdling obstacles, tweaking ideas, or completely overhauling their curriculum in response to the challenges their programs face. You'll go behind the scenes and discover theatre education innovations that work, methods to make them happen in your school, and inspiring stories of how these changes will improve both your teaching and the lives of your students. Change can come without warning and it can seem scary, but it can also stimulate a level of professional growth you never imagined possible. With her emphasis on best practices, hands-on activities drawn from her interviews, and rock-solid educational theory to back it all up, Joan Lazarus will change how you look at your practice, and how you look at change.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811211967

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811217086

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The Traveling Companion and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

Author : Julian Hilton
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015026979651

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New Directions in Theatre by Julian Hilton Pdf

The boom in interest in theatre studies at school and in further and higher education signals a new interest in the relationship between the theory and the practice of performance. The best tool you can give the learner is a good theory, and from this collection of theories, learners can choose the tools that best suit their approach to theatre studies. They range from reception theory and semiotics, to the anthropology of the audience and the carnivalesque to hermeneutics and computing.

Author : Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514029

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New Directions in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan Pdf

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.

Author : Camille C. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317088530

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New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance by Camille C. Baker Pdf

New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance explores various performative projects and forms of expression that have emerged since the onset of the smartphone. It focuses mainly on new concepts and developments that have emerged in mobile media performance. It showcases the intimate and phenomenological mobile aesthetic that has been unfolding within networked performance and media art projects for over a decade and a half. This aesthetic utilises the potential and affordances with each iteration and update of modern smartphones. Themes of embodiment, presence, liveness and connection through mobile, networked, and remote technology are revisited in the context of HD mobile cameras, selfies and live video streaming from the phone, as well as the impact of peer production, opensource and Maker culture on mobile media performance practices. It explores the surge in development of wearable devices in performance, as well as how the ‘quantified-self movement’ has affected performance works. It deals with concepts and developments in intermedial performance that incorporate mobile and wearable devices, especially from the artist’s, designer’s or dramaturge’s perspective as the creator and their creative process, working with technology as a collaborator, not just a tool or guide. The book demonstrates how artists have repurposed the device – transforming it from merely a communication device, using voice and text only – to become a new collaborative medium, a full visual, synaesthetic, interactive and performative tool of deeper expression and social change. It discusses seminal works and the evolution of the medium, within intermedial digital art and performance practices as medium for artistic expression, creative process and staged performances. It focuses on projects and artists who have pushed mobile media performance beyond the conventional blackbox. Emerging visual, digital, interactive, tactile, gestural and theatrical or performance projects that incorporate mobile or wearable devices, used as vehicles for more challenging, experimental, experiential and immersive performative artworks are highlighted. The book also contextualises Baker’s own media research and performance practice within the larger landscape with the field. It is bookended with interviews with the artists themselves on their creative process and intentions. It is the outcome of three years of research of artistic works around the world, interviews, in-person viewings of performances, as well as incorporating and reflecting on her own ongoing practice and projects in context.

Author : Joan Lazarus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1841507229

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Signs of Change by Joan Lazarus Pdf

Author : Anne Fliotsos,Gail S. Medford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319897677

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New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts by Anne Fliotsos,Gail S. Medford Pdf

This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies. The text focuses upon a firm practice-based approach that also reflects research in the field, offering innovative and proven methods that theatre educators may use to actively engage students and encourage student success. The sixteen essays in this volume are divided into five sections: Teaching with Digital Technology, Teaching in Response to Educational Trends, Teaching New Directions in Performance, Teaching Beyond the Traditional, and Teaching Collaboratively or Across Disciplines. Study of this book will provoke readers to question both teaching methods and curricula as they consider the ever-shifting arts landscape and the potential careers for theatre graduates.

Author : Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312047282

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Transposing Drama by Egil Törnqvist Pdf

An examination of five well-known plays with regard to two traditional types of transposition, translation and stage performance, and two more recent types, radio and TV production, in order to throw light on the play texts, their adjustability to transposition and on the characteristics of the transposing media. The plays examined are A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Miss Julie, Ghost Sonata and Long Day's Journey into Night.

Author : Rob Urbinati
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317554646

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Play Readings by Rob Urbinati Pdf

Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the essential considerations involved in readings, including the use of the venue, pre-reading preparations, playwright/director communication, editing/adapting stage directions, casting, using the limited rehearsal time effectively, simple "staging" suggestions, working with actors, handling complex stage directions, talkbacks, and limiting the use of props, costumes, and music. A variety of readings are covered, including readings of musicals, operas, and period plays, for comprehensive coverage of this increasingly prevalent production form.

Author : Avra Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351839280

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Directions for Directing by Avra Sidiropoulou Pdf

Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader community of theatre practitioners, scholars, and dedicated theatre goers, the book sheds light on the director’s multiplicity of roles throughout the life of a play – from the moment of its conception to opening night – and explores the director’s processes of inspiration, interpretation, communication, and leadership. From organizing auditions and making casting choices to decoding complex dramaturgical texts and motivating actors, Directions for Directing offers practical advice and features detailed workbook sections on how to navigate such a fascinating discipline. A companion website explores the work of international practitioners of different backgrounds who operate within various institutions, companies, and budgets, providing readers with a wide range of perspectives and methodologies.

Author : Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : 081120152X

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The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan by Ernest Fenollosa,Ezra Pound Pdf

The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811214222

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Spring Storm by Tennessee Williams Pdf

A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today

Author : Charlotte McIvor,Jason King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030027049

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Interculturalism and Performance Now by Charlotte McIvor,Jason King Pdf

This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.

Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811202321

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Many Loves and Other Plays by William Carlos Williams Pdf

For this volume, originally published in cloth in 1961, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. As might be expected of the man who did most in our time to create a new and truly "American" idiom for poetry, Dr. Williams' writing for the stage challenges producers and actors to extend the range of modern drama.