The Cambridge Companion To Performance Studies

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139828185

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The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies by Tracy C. Davis Pdf

Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experimental in its techniques. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars who reflect on their own experiences in Performance Studies and the possibilities this offers to representations of identity, self-and-other, and communities. Theories which have been absorbed into the field are applied to compelling topics in current academic, artistic and community settings. The collection is designed to reflect the diversity of outlooks and provide a guide for students as well as scholars seeking a perspective on research trends.

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108476522

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr Pdf

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

Author : David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521766364

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The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History by David Wiles,Christine Dymkowski Pdf

A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.

Author : Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485166

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The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis Pdf

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1167601205

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The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies by Tracy C. Davis Pdf

Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108425483

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The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals by Ric Knowles Pdf

An up-to-date, contextualized assessment of the impact of the 'festivalization' of culture around the world.

Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009359580

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre by Harvey Young Pdf

This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.

Author : Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108482042

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The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies by Siobhan B. Somerville Pdf

This Companion provides a guide to queer literary and cultural studies, introducing critical debates in the field and an overview of queer approaches to various genres.

Author : Stanley Wells,Sarah Stanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052179711X

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage by Stanley Wells,Sarah Stanton Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts an individual approach and focus, on textual adaptation, acting, stages, scenery or theatre management. These are followed by three explorations of acting: tragic and comic actors and women performers of Shakespeare roles. A section on international performance includes chapters on interculturalism, on touring companies and on political theatre, with separate accounts of the performing traditions of North America, Asia and Africa. Over forty pictures illustrate performers and productions of Shakespeare from around the world. An amalgamated list of items for further reading completes the book.

Author : Nicholas Till
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521855617

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The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies by Nicholas Till Pdf

The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.

Author : Julia Listengarten,Stephen Di Benedetto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108570268

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The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 by Julia Listengarten,Stephen Di Benedetto Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.

Author : Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139825344

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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill by Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond Pdf

Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation – her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316264966

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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies by Christopher B. Balme Pdf

Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this Introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline. Following a cross-cultural perspective, the book surveys the ways theatre and performance are studied by looking initially at key elements such as performers, spectators and space. The central focus is on methodology, which is divided into sections covering theatre theory, historiography and textual and performance analysis. The book covers all the main theatrical genres - drama, opera and dance - providing students with a comparative, integrated perspective. Designed to guide students through the academic dimension of the discipline, the volume emphasizes questions of methodology, research techniques and approaches, and will therefore be relevant for a wide variety of theatre studies courses. Informative textboxes provide background on key topics, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter.

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495029

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture by Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Author : Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827256

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre by Marianne McDonald,Michael Walton Pdf

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.