Ruth Maleczech At Mabou Mines

Author : Jessica Silsby Brater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472578846

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Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines by Jessica Silsby Brater Pdf

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context. Brater considers Maleczech's investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines' Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech's final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

Author : Jessica Brater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : 1472578864

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Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines by Jessica Brater Pdf

Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist Ruth Maleczech.

Author : Jessica Silsby Brater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472578853

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Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines by Jessica Silsby Brater Pdf

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context. Brater considers Maleczech's investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines' Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech's final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

Author : Lee Breuer
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366786

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The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer Pdf

A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.

Author : Iris Smith Fischer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472117628

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Mabou Mines by Iris Smith Fischer Pdf

The first 10 years of a company known for its creative collaborations and daring innovations

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : UOM:39015008582150

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Imagination Dead Imagine ... by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Lee Breuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056441226

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La Divina Caricatura by Lee Breuer Pdf

A new fiction by the world-renowned playwright.

Author : Matthew Paul Olmos
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573701008

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The Nature of Captivity by Matthew Paul Olmos Pdf

Inspired by the Dog Catcher Riots that followed a law that was passed in New York which made it illegal for dogs to roam the city without being leashed. To implement this law, the city sent teams of dog catchers to the streets to capture all the strays. However, many people did not agree with this law, and there was a small spurt of riots with people trying keep the dogs from being caught. The story is told in two parts, the first part from the captive's point of view and the second from the captors. In part one, a put-upon family is run from their home by a settlement of people. In part two, a settlement of people get a surprise guest while simply trying to run a put-upon family from their home.

Author : Horton Foote
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822232407

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A Coffin in Egypt by Horton Foote Pdf

THE STORY: Myrtle Bledsoe, a ninety-year-old Texas widow, looks back on the dramatic events that caused a small Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife. This almost-monologue by American master Horton Foote is a haunting tale of how men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor are all entangled in the chaos of life.

Author : Lee Breuer
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015051354580

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Sister Suzie Cinema by Lee Breuer Pdf

In addition to the listed contents, includes an essay and five poems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:939407824

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Mercier und Camier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Broinowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780935973

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Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan by Adam Broinowski Pdf

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.

Author : Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva,Scott Proudfit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137550132

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Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva,Scott Proudfit Pdf

This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre. Tracing a web of women theatremakers in Europe and North America, this book explores the connections between early twentieth century collective theatre practices such as workers theatre and the dramatic play movement, and the subsequent spread of theatrical devising. Chapters investigate the work of the Settlement Houses, total theatre in 1920s’ France, the mid-century avant-garde and New Left collectives, the nomadic performances of Europe’s transnational theatre troupes, street-theatre protests, and contemporary devising. In so doing, the book further elucidates a history of modern theatre begun in A History of Collective Creation (2013) and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (2013), in which the seemingly marginal and disparate practices of collective creation and devising are revealed as central—and women theatremakers revealed as progenitors of these practices.

Author : Lee Breuer
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781559368629

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Getting Off by Lee Breuer Pdf

Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. By blending disciplines and techniques from widely different cultures, he has created a unique performance genre fusing sound and musical components, visual arts, and arresting movement/dance/puppetry into a groundbreaking form. Breuer’s work as a director includes radical adaptations of major works, such as his celebrated stagings of The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett, The Gospel at Colonus, inspired by Sophocles, a gender-reversed King Lear, and a revolutionary reinterpretation of Ibsen with Mabou Mines DollHouse. Breuer has also been a prolific writer who redefines the concept of character and the use of biography in such works as The Shaggy Dog Animation, A Prelude to Death in Venice, Hajj, Ecco Porco, and La Divina Caricatura in a distinctive American voice. In this volume, theatre historian and journalist Stephen Nunns has assembled a unique look into one of contemporary theatre’s most singular creative minds. Using interviews and excerpts from Breuer’s writings, with added historical commentary, the thrilling result is equal parts autobiography, artistic manifesto, and critical exploration. Extensively illustrated with photographs of his work from around the world, this is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artist and theatrical activist at work.

Author : Joan Herrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350193239

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Great North American Stage Directors Volume 5 by Joan Herrington Pdf

Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their theatrical roles as directors, scholars, theorists and teachers has placed them among the most influential thinker/practitioners of their generation. This book reveals the ways in which their consistent inquiry enabled them to re-examine, re-frame, and re-invent their own practice. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Schechner, Breuer and Bogart have established powerful legacies of consistently innovative theatre most often created in the company of an ensemble of collaborative artists. Their influence is undeniable in the reformulation of theatre practices from the 1970s onward. The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.