Shakespeare And Community Performance

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031332678

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Shakespeare and Community Performance by Katherine Steele Brokaw Pdf

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031332660

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Shakespeare and Community Performance by Katherine Steele Brokaw Pdf

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Author : Paul Edward Yachnin,Patricia Badir
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754655857

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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance by Paul Edward Yachnin,Patricia Badir Pdf

Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Author : Catherine Silverstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135178314

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Shakespeare and Trauma by Catherine Silverstone Pdf

This study explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare's plays and the ways in which they engage with traumatic events and histories. It investigates the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance.

Author : Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084190

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Here in This Island We Arrived by Elisabeth H. Kinsley Pdf

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cultural history, revealing how these communities interacted with one another and how their work influenced ideas about race and belonging in the United States during a time of unprecedented immigration. As Progressive Era reformers touted the works of Shakespeare as an “antidote” to the linguistic and cultural mixing of American society, and some reformers attempted to use the Bard’s plays to “Americanize” immigrant groups on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, immigrants from across Europe appropriated Shakespeare for their own ends. Kinsley uses archival material such as reform-era handbooks, theatre posters, playbills, programs, sheet music, and reviews to demonstrate how, in addition to being a source of cultural capital, authority, and resistance for these communities, Shakespeare’s plays were also a site of cultural exchange. Performances of Shakespeare occasioned nuanced social encounters between New York’s empowered and marginalized groups and influenced sociocultural ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans. Timely and immensely readable, this book explains how ideas about cultural belonging formed and transformed within a particular human community at a time of heightened demographic change. Kinsley’s work will be welcomed by anyone interested in the formation of national identity, immigrant communities, and the history of the theatre scene in New York and the rest of the United States.

Author : Rowan Mackenzie,Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781805390633

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Shakespeare and Social Engagement by Rowan Mackenzie,Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the complicated and vibrant encounters between a canonical cultural force and work that frequently characterizes itself as inclusive and egalitarian.

Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107055957

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Shakespeare Performance Studies by W. B. Worthen Pdf

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350021754

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars by Ayanna Thompson Pdf

The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director whose Shakespeare productions have polarized communities and critics. Through extensive interviews and archival work, leading Shakespearean Ayanna Thompson takes readers on a journey through experimental theatre and the tensions that arise between innovation and accessibility. An iconoclastic figure who inspires strong reactions both personally and professionally, Peter Sellars continues to amaze and confound. This book takes readers inside his world for the first time.

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226044798

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This Wide and Universal Theater by David Bevington Pdf

This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Author : Barbara Hodgdon,W. B. Worthen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405150231

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A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance by Barbara Hodgdon,W. B. Worthen Pdf

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.

Author : Gemma Kate Allred,Benjamin Broadribb,Erin Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350247819

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Lockdown Shakespeare by Gemma Kate Allred,Benjamin Broadribb,Erin Sullivan Pdf

This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence and community. Interviews with theatre makers and artists illuminate the challenges and benefits of creating new work online, while educators consider how digital tools have facilitated the teaching of Shakespeare through performance. Together, the chapters in this book offer readers the definitive work on the performance and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the pandemic. From The Show Must Go Online, which presented Shakespeare's First Folio via YouTube, to Creation Theatre and Big Telly's interactive The Tempest and Macbeth, which used Zoom as their stage, the book documents the variety and richness of work that emerged during the pandemic. It reveals how, by taking Shakespeare online in new and innovative ways, the theatre industry sparked the evolution of new forms of performance with their own conventions, aesthetics and notions of liveness. Among the other productions discussed are Arden Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tender Claws' 'The Under Presents: Tempest', The Shakespeare Ensemble's What You Will, Merced Shakespearefest's Ricardo II, CtrlAltRepeat's Midsummer Night Stream, Sally McLean's Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) and Justina Taft Mattos's Moore – A Pacific Island Othello.

Author : Catherine Silverstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135178307

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Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance by Catherine Silverstone Pdf

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as they have emerged in selected contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts, especially as that violence relates to apartheid, colonization, racism, homophobia and war. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies, which are informed by debates in Shakespeare, trauma and performance studies and developed from extensive archival research, the book examines how performances and their documentary traces work variously to memorialize, remember and witness violent events and histories. In the process, Silverstone considers the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance, especially in relation to performing, spectatorship and community formation. Ranging from the mainstream to the fringe, key performances discussed include Gregory Doran’s Titus Andronicus (1995) for Johannesburg’s Market Theatre; Don C. Selwyn’s New Zealand-made film, The Maori Merchant of Venice (2001); Philip Osment’s appropriation of The Tempest in This Island’s Mine for London’s Gay Sweatshop (1988); and Nicholas Hytner’s Henry V (2003) for the National Theatre in London.

Author : Trevor Boffone,Carla Della Gatta
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474488518

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Shakespeare and Latinidad by Trevor Boffone,Carla Della Gatta Pdf

Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays.

Author : Rowan Mackenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350272668

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Creating Space for Shakespeare by Rowan Mackenzie Pdf

Applied Shakespeare is attracting growing interest from practitioners and academics alike, all keen to understand the ways in which performing his works can offer opportunities for reflection, transformation, dialogue regarding social justice, and challenging of perceived limitations. This book adds a new dimension to the field by taking an interdisciplinary approach to topics which have traditionally been studied individually, examining the communication opportunities Shakespeare's work can offer for a range of marginalized people. It draws on a diverse range of projects from across the globe, many of which the author has facilitated or been directly involved with, including those with incarcerated people, people with mental health issues, learning disabilities and who have experienced homelessness. As this book evidences, Shakespeare can be used to alter the spatial constraints of people who feel imprisoned, whether literally or metaphorically, enabling them to speak and to be heard in ways which may previously have been elusive or unattainable. The book examines the use of trauma-informed principles to explore the ways in which consistency, longevity, trust and collaboration enable the development of resilience, positive autonomy and communication skills. It explores this phenomenon of creating space for people to find their own way of expressing themselves in a way that mainstream society can understand, whilst also challenging society to 'see better' and to hear better. This is not a process of social homogenisation but of encouraging positive interactions and removing the stigma of marginalization.

Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:32000001291121

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Shakespeare's Plays in Performance by John Russell Brown Pdf