Power And Structure In Theater

Author : Thomas Schmidt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658422806

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Power and Structure in Theater by Thomas Schmidt Pdf

Structure and power are two defining and interrelated aspects of the German theater business. It is based on the strictly hierarchical organization of 1900 and has undergone hardly any structural changes since then. This not only impairs the innovative capacity of this important institution, but also leads to inappropriately strong power positions of the directors, to conflicts with the ensembles and employees, and hinders the development and renewal of the artistic potentials of this cultural technique. The publication is based on the results of the study 'Art and Power in the Theater' - with 1966 participants the largest study of its kind. The content Power as a decision-making and management tool in the theater The connection between power and organization Power and abuse in the theater Structural power and forms of power containment Results of the study The target groups Students, teachers and researchers in the fields of cultural management, cultural and theater studies, dramaturgy, psychology, sociology and anthropology, employees of management at the theater and other cultural organization The author Thomas Schmidt has been professor and director of the Theater and Orchestra Management program in Frankfurt since 2010. He was managing director of the National Theater Weimar from 2003 to 2013 and visiting professor at Harvard University in 2014.

Author : Sue-Ellen Case,Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587290343

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The Performance of Power by Sue-Ellen Case,Janelle G. Reinelt Pdf

Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X

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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : MINN:31951D00812036Y

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Soviet Military Power by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ana Elena Puga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135899240

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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater by Ana Elena Puga Pdf

In this timely study, Puga compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428982109

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Air power in three wars by Anonim Pdf

Author : Murray Frame
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786406887

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The St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters by Murray Frame Pdf

The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these theaters and where their loyalties lay in the complex shifting power structure of early twentieth century Russia. This history begins in 1900 with the theater flourishing but undergoing change, then chronicles the impact of war and revolution, as well as audience and administration, leading up to the effective re-establishment of state control over the theaters by the Bolsheviks in 1920. While the theaters were often allied with the forces of change, their grandeur harked back to the age of the tsars, creating an irony that is explored here in depth. Photographs and diagrams of the theaters are included, along with photographs of the central historical figures, and contemporary cartoons referring to the theaters.

Author : George C. Izenour
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300067668

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Theater Technology by George C. Izenour Pdf

George C. Izenour ties detailed information on construction, lighting, acoustical structures, electro-mechanical-hydraulic systems, and stage controls to a rich-history of technological developments from the invention of the proscenium stage in late Renaissance Italy to the contributions of our own time. All the drawings are produced on the same scale for plan, transverse section, and perspective section.

Author : Luis Ramos-García
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hispanic American drama
ISBN : 0815338805

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The State of Latino Theater in the United States by Luis Ramos-García Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kirstin Pauka
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780896804135

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Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra by Kirstin Pauka Pdf

Randai, the popular folk theater tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, has evolved to include influences of martial arts, storytelling, and folk songs. Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra describes the origin, development, and cultural background of randai and highlights two recent developments: the emergence of female performers and modern staging techniques. This book also explores the indigenous martial arts form silek, a vital part of randai today. The strong presence of silek is illustrated in the martial focus of the stories that are told through randai, in its movement repertoire, and even in its costumes and musical accompaniment. As Kirstin Pauka shows, randai, firmly rooted in silek and Minangkabau tradition, is an intriguing mirror of the Minangkabau culture.

Author : Michael J. Sosulski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351880152

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Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Michael J. Sosulski Pdf

In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic Wars but was decisive in shaping cultural production in the last third of the eighteenth century, operating not on the level of popular consciousness but instead within representational practices and institutions. Grounding his study in a Foucauldian understanding of emergent technologies of the self, Sosulski connects the increasing performance of body discipline by professional actors, soldiers, and schoolchildren to the growing interest in German national identity. The idea of a German cultural nation gradually emerged as a conceptual force through the work of an influential series of literary intellectuals and advocates of a national theater, including G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller. Sosulski combines fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known dramas, with analysis of eighteenth-century theories of nationhood and evolving acting theories, to show that the very lack of a strong national consciousness in the late eighteenth century actually spurred the emergence of the German Nationaltheater, which were conceived in the spirit of the Enlightenment as educational institutions. Since for Germans, nationality was a performed identity, theater emerged as an ideal space in which to imagine that nation.

Author : Catherine Larson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838755690

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Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women by Catherine Larson Pdf

In the seventeen dramatic texts examined in this study, women writers from Spanish America have self-consciously incorporated games into their plays' structures to highlight from a woman's perspective the idea that life, as well as the theatre, is a game. Some dramas are so overtly about games that the word appears significantly in their titles. Others reflect game playing in less direct ways or connect metatheatrical examinations of role-playing to the ludic. In every drama examined, however, a game of some sort plays a key role in the construction of the playtest. By looking at the nature and number of the games played in these women-authored dramas from the past fifty years, we can see the ways in which play is used to effect social control and the connections between play and aggression, gender, history and politics. In these representative dramas, the theatre serves as a vehicle for encouraging audiences to think about (if not act upon) the issues that have shaped Spanish America. Games, rules, winners and losers join together as the playwrights explore events and times of fundamental importance in the countries' historical and political evolutions.

Author : Javed Malick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472105876

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Toward a Theater of the Oppressed by Javed Malick Pdf

Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights

Author : Cormac Power
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042023819

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Presence in Play by Cormac Power Pdf

Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The 'live' immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of dramatic action and the 'energy' generated through an actor-audience relationship are among the ideas frequently used to explain theatrical experience – and all are underpinned by some understanding of 'presence.' Precisely what is meant by presence in the theatre is part of what Presence in Play sets out to explain. While this work is rooted in twentieth century theatre and performance since modernism, the author draws on a range of historical and theoretical material. Encompassing ideas from semiotics and phenomenology, Presence in Play puts forward a framework for thinking about presence in theatre, enriched by poststructuralist theory, forcefully arguing in favour of 'presence' as a key concept for theatre studies today.

Author : Michael D. Bristol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317748311

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Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals) by Michael D. Bristol Pdf

In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.