Steven Berkoff And The Theatre Of Self Performance

Author : Robert Cross
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719062543

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Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance by Robert Cross Pdf

Steven Berkoff is a playwright, director and actor largely disregarded by theater scholars. Since the 1960s, however, this notorious Cockney enfant terrible and "scourge of the Shakespeare industry" has left an imprint on modern British theatre that has been as impossible to ignore as his in-your-face stage presence. Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, the first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist, examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona.

Author : Jeanette R. Malkin,Eckart Voigts,Sarah Jane Ablett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350135987

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A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s by Jeanette R. Malkin,Eckart Voigts,Sarah Jane Ablett Pdf

The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish theatre from the 1950s onwards, beginning with an analysis of the first generation of writers that now forms the core of post-war British drama (including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker) and moving on to significant thematic force-fields and faultlines such as the Holocaust, antisemitism and Israel/Palestine. The book also covers the new generation of British-Jewish playwrights, with a special emphasis on the contribution of women writers and the role of particular theatres in the development of British-Jewish theatre, as well as TV drama. Included in the book are fascinating interviews with a set of significant theatre practitioners working today, including Ryan Craig, Patrick Marber, John Nathan, Julia Pascal and Nicholas Hytner. The companion addresses, not only aesthetic and ideological concerns, but also recent transformations with regard to institutional contexts and frameworks of cultural policies.

Author : Susana Pendzik,Renée Emunah,David Read Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137535931

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The Self in Performance by Susana Pendzik,Renée Emunah,David Read Johnson Pdf

This book is the first to examine the performance of autobiographical material as a theatrical form, a research subject, and a therapeutic method. Contextualizing personal performance within psychological and theatrical paradigms, the book identifies and explores core concepts, such as the function of the director/therapist throughout the creative process, the role of the audience, and the dramaturgy involved in constructing such performances. It thus provides insights into a range of Autobiographic Therapeutic Performance forms, including Self-Revelatory and Autoethnographic Performance. Addressing issues of identity, memory, authenticity, self-reflection, self-indulgence, and embodied self-representation, the book presents, with both breadth and depth, a look at this fascinating field, gathering contributions by notable professionals around the world. Methods and approaches are illustrated with case examples that range from clients in private practice in California, through students in drama therapy training in the UK, to inmates in Lebanese prisons.

Author : Ayse Tashkiran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350054486

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Movement Directors in Contemporary Theatre by Ayse Tashkiran Pdf

'When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-pilot, navigating and creating the world of the play.' - Joan Iyiola Movement directors work with the physical, living bodies at the heart of theatre productions, creating movement languages with actors and directors. Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading theatre practitioners, Ayse Tashkiran charts the growth of the movement director in contemporary theatre. The voices of Jane Gibson, Sue Lefton, Kate Flatt, Toby Sedgwick, Siân Williams, Struan Leslie, Ellen Kane, Peter Darling, Steven Hoggett, Ann Yee, Imogen Knight and Shelley Maxwell explore processes of creativity, collaboration and innovation for the moving body in performance. The conversations open up: Growth of movement direction through the 20th century New insights into embodied theatre practice Diverse movement approaches and creative preparation Physical trainings and influences Working methods with directors and actors in the rehearsal room Movement for actors in opera, film, television and musical theatre Relationships between movement direction and theatre choreography Potential future developments in the field

Author : Vayos Liapis,Avra Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107155701

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Adapting Greek Tragedy by Vayos Liapis,Avra Sidiropoulou Pdf

Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.

Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472580153

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Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 by Irene Morra Pdf

Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first, it counters common assumptions that the form is a marginal, fundamentally outdated curiosity. Through an examination of the extensive and diverse engagement of literary and theatrical writers, directors and musicians, Irene Morra identifies in modern verse drama a consistent and often prominent attempt to expand upon, revitalize, and redefine the contemporary English stage. Dramatists discussed include Stephen Phillips, Gordon Bottomley, John Masefield, James Elroy Flecker, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Steven Berkoff, Caryl Churchill, and Mike Bartlett. The book explores the negotiation of these dramatists with the changing position of verse drama in relation to constructions of national and communal audience, aesthetic challenge, and dramatic heritage. Key to the study is the self-conscious positioning of many of these dramatists in relation to an assumed mainstream tradition – and the various critical responses that that positioning has provoked. The study advocates for a scholarly revaluation of what must be identified as an influential and overlooked tradition of aesthetic challenge and creativity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004310988

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy by Anonim Pdf

In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Dodson-Robinson incorporates interdisciplinary essays tracing how Western writers from antiquity to the present have transformed Senecan drama to develop competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe.

Author : M. Inchley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137432339

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Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007 by M. Inchley Pdf

In New Labour's empathetic regime, how did diverse voices scrutinize its etiquettes of articulation and audibility? Using the voice as cultural evidence, Voice and New Writing explores what it means to 'have' a voice in mainstream theatre and for newly included voices to negotiate with the institutions that 'find' and 'represent' their identities.

Author : Jack Becker,Robert G. Weiner,B. Lynn Whitfield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443843843

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James Bond in World and Popular Culture by Jack Becker,Robert G. Weiner,B. Lynn Whitfield Pdf

James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. The 40 original essays provide new insights, scholarship, and understanding to the world of James Bond. Topics include the Bond girl, Bond related video games, Ian Fleming’s relationship with the notorious Aleister Crowley and CIA director Alan Dulles. Other articles include Fleming as a character in modern fiction, Bond Jr. comics, the post Fleming novels of John Gardner and Raymond Benson, Bond as an American Superhero, and studies on the music, dance, fashion, and architecture in Bond films. Woody Allen and Peter Sellers as James Bond are also considered, as are Japanese imitation films from the 1960s, the Britishness of Bond, comparisons of Bond to Christian ideals, movie posters and much more. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have contributed a unique collection of perspectives on the world of James Bond and its history. Despite the diversity of viewpoints, the unifying factor is the James Bond mythos. James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough is a much needed contribution to Bond studies and shows how this cultural icon has changed the world.

Author : Steven Berkoff
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043360440

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The Theatre of Steven Berkoff by Steven Berkoff Pdf

Documents eleven of his most distinctive productions.

Author : Steven Berkoff
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318469

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Steven Berkoff Plays 1 by Steven Berkoff Pdf

Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful. This first collection of his plays includes East, described by Berkoff as 'an outburst or revolt against the sloth of my youth and a desire to turn a welter of undirected passion and frustration into a positive form'. Also included in this collection are the plays West and Sink the Belgrano!

Author : D. Keith Peacock
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3039110713

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Changing Performance by D. Keith Peacock Pdf

This book examines changes in performance practice in mainstream British theatre since 1945 which focus on the attempt by directors and companies to replace the realism of inter-war theatre with more physically and vocally expressive acting and ensemble approach to production processes. The aim was to replace the capitalist line-management approach of the commercial theatre with a more democratic collaborative structure that would encourage contribution to the creation of the performance text by the director, writer, actors, designers and technicians. Theatre is viewed as a mode of socio-cultural practice and its evolution in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century is explored in the context of changes in cultural perception, state subsidy, the social status of theatre, technology, and aesthetic influences from abroad. The study focuses not on dramatic texts but on mainstream productions that represent stages in an aesthetic evolution. They include Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version (1946); Theatre Workshop's A Taste of Honey (1958) and Oh What a Lovely War (1963); The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1962), The Wars of the Roses (1963), The Theatre of Cruelty Laboratory (1964), The Marat-Sade (1964) and US (1966); Steven Berkoff's Metamorphosis (1969) and Complicite's The Three Lives of Lucy Cabrol (1994).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043194

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Berkoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:77373854

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East by Steven Berkoff Pdf

Author : Peter Childs,Michael Storry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134755547

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture by Peter Childs,Michael Storry Pdf

Boasting more than 970 alphabetically-arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. It examines high and popular culture and encompasses both institutional and alternative aspects of British culture. It provides insight into the whole spectrum of British contemporary life. Topics covered include: architecture, pubs, film, internet and current takes on the monarchy. Cross-referencing and a thematic contents list enable readers to identify related articles. The entries range from short biographical synopses to longer overview essays on key issues. This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in British culture. It also provides a cultural context for students of English, Modern History and Comparative European Studies.