Playwriting For Puppet Theatre

Author : Jean M. Mattson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461670544

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Playwriting for Puppet Theatre by Jean M. Mattson Pdf

Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The important aspects of script writing are then addressed. She considers the many general questions which must be answered by the playwright: the type of puppet to be used, the audience, and availability of resources and facilities. Suggestions are then given for dramatizing original ideas and for adapting well-known stories. The chapter on plot development emphasizes the importance of perspective, transitional material and the need for action. One chapter proposes various ways to develop a character through dialogue, names, and behavior. Another chapter demonstrates how the use of rhyme can add interest and humor to a puppet play. Teachers will find suggestions on how to develop a play on a specific theme or about a specific character. Some attention is also given to the mechanics of writing a play. Includes a group of puppet plays which have been successfully performed by Seattle Puppetory Theatre. Among them are Rumplestiltskin, The Princess and the Pea, The Bad-Tempered Wife, The Golden Axe, The Swineherd, and The Fisherman and His Wife. Production notes follow each script. Several samples of manipulation charts are included which may be used as an aid in blocking the puppets and the puppeteers for the various hand puppet productions.

Author : Eric Bramall
Publisher : London : G. Bell & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Puppet plays
ISBN : PSU:000002428598

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Puppet Plays & Playwriting by Eric Bramall Pdf

Author : Eric Bramall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0392085720

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Puppet Plays and Playwriting by Eric Bramall Pdf

Author : Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350024755

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 by Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

Author : Chris Hay,Stephen Carleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000784565

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Contemporary Australian Playwriting by Chris Hay,Stephen Carleton Pdf

Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the twenty-first century. In 2007, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was William Shakespeare. In 2019, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was Nakkiah Lui, a Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman. This book explores what has happened both on stage and off to generate this remarkable change. As writers of colour, queer writers, and gender diverse writers are produced on the mainstage in larger numbers, they bring new critical directions to the twenty-first century Australian stage. At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia’s leading playwrights have interrogated, problematised, and tried to make sense of the nation. Tracing contemporary trends, the book takes a thematic approach to the re-evaluation of the nation that is dramatized in key Australian plays. Each chapter is accompanied by a duologue between two of the playwrights whose work has been analysed, to provide a dual perspective of theory and practice.

Author : Henryk Jurkowski,Penny Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350315815

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Aspects of Puppet Theatre by Henryk Jurkowski,Penny Francis Pdf

Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis. Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.

Author : Carolyn M. Dunn,Eric Micha Holmes,Les Hunter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003813903

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Decentered Playwriting by Carolyn M. Dunn,Eric Micha Holmes,Les Hunter Pdf

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods. A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques by introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods, traditions, and ways of studying, and teaching diverse narratological practices. This is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting, dramatic structure, storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, or as part of their own professional practice.

Author : Nancy H. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Puppet theater
ISBN : 0698033183

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Puppet Theatre in Performance by Nancy H. Cole Pdf

A compendium of information on setting up a puppet theater and putting on plays.

Author : Margherita Laera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Mike Sell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153622

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s by Mike Sell Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave (1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie: American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).

Author : Ronnie Burkett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770910476

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Penny Plain by Ronnie Burkett Pdf

A strange, spellbinding new play. Humanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait.

Author : Richard Pischel,Mildred C. Tawney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0649015258

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The Home of the Puppet-play by Richard Pischel,Mildred C. Tawney Pdf

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136119002

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer) Pdf

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Author : Katherine Saltzman-Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004193208

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Creating Kabuki Plays by Katherine Saltzman-Li Pdf

This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting. At the hand of this vital text, the author addresses the history, methodology, and practitioners of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867.) The reader will find a critical examination of Kezairoku, and discussions regarding the connections between the Kabuki and literary worlds of Edo Japan, and between playwriting and the oral arts. The availability of the entire Kezairoku in English, together with a full contextualization of its teachings and meanings, offers a volume of great significance to both Japan and theatre scholars.

Author : Penny Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230356832

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Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice by Penny Francis Pdf

In this sophisticated and compelling introduction to puppet theatre, Penny Francis offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. She provides an account of puppetry's different facets, from its demands and techniques, through its uses and abuses, to its history and philosophy. Now recognized as a valuable and powerful medium used in the making of most forms of theatre and filmed work, those referring to Puppetry will discover something of the roots, dramaturgy, literature and techniques of this visual art form. The book gathers together material from an international selection of sources, bringing puppet theatre to life for the student, practitioner and amateur alike.