The Illuminated Theatre

Author : Joe Kelleher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317481218

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The Illuminated Theatre by Joe Kelleher Pdf

What sort of thing is a theatre image? How is it produced and consumed? Who is responsible for the images? Why do the images stay with us when the performance is over? How do we learn to speak of what we see and imagine? And how do we relate what we experience in the theatre to what we share with each other of the world? The Illuminated Theatre is a book about theatricality and spectatorship in the early twenty-first century. In a wide-ranging analysis that draws upon theatrical, visual and philosophical approaches, it asks how spectators and audiences negotiate the complexities and challenges of contemporary experimental performance arts. It is also a book about how European practitioners working across a range of forms, from theatre and performance to dance, opera, film and visual arts, use images to address the complexities of the times in which their work takes place. Through detailed and impassioned accounts of works by artists such as Dickie Beau, Wendy Houstoun, Alvis Hermanis and Romeo Castellucci, along with close readings of experimental theoretical and art writing from Gillian Rose to T.J. Clark and Marie-José Mondzain, the book outlines the historical, aesthetic and political dimensions of a contemporary ‘suffering of images.’

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378019

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Blake's Drama by Diane Piccitto Pdf

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Author : Yaron Abulafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317429715

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The Art of Light on Stage by Yaron Abulafia Pdf

The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated. The book examines the evolution of lighting design in contemporary theatre through an exploration of two fundamental issues: 1. What gave rise to the new directions in lighting design in contemporary theatre? 2. How can these new directions be viewed within the context of lighting design history? The study then focuses on the phenomenological and semiotic aspects of the medium for light – the role of light as a performer, as the medium of visual perception and as a stimulus for imaginative representations – in selected contemporary theatre productions by Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Heiner Goebbels, Jossi Wieler and David Zinder. This ground-breaking book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of performance.

Author : M. Suddain
Publisher : Random House
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448130924

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Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain Pdf

This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a brave deaf boy, a cunning blind girl, and a sultry botanist, all the while pursued by the Pope of the universe and a well-dressed mesmerist. Dark plots, demonic cults, murderous jungles, quantum mayhem, the birth of creation, the death of time, and a creature called the Sweety: all this and more waits beyond the veil of reality.

Author : Gösta Mauritz Bergman
Publisher : Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106018499688

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Lighting in the Theatre by Gösta Mauritz Bergman Pdf

Author : Maaike Bleeker
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789053565162

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Anatomy Live by Maaike Bleeker Pdf

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson—the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties—hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre, a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head—using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, Anatomy Live is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Author : Karen Quigley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350055476

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Performing the Unstageable by Karen Quigley Pdf

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.

Author : Katja Hilevaara,Emily Orley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317200130

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The Creative Critic by Katja Hilevaara,Emily Orley Pdf

As practitioner-researchers, how do we discuss and analyse our work without losing the creative drive that inspired us in the first place? Built around a diverse selection of writings from leading researcher-practitioners and emerging artists in a variety of fields, The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice celebrates the extraordinary range of possibilities available when writing about one’s own work and the work one is inspired by. It re-thinks the conventions of the scholarly output to propose that critical writing be understood as an integral part of the artistic process, and even as artwork in its own right. Finding ways to make the intangible nature of much of our work ‘count’ under assessment has become increasingly important in the Academy and beyond. The Creative Critic offers an inspiring and useful sourcebook for students and practitioner-researchers navigating this area. Please see the companion site to the book, http://www.creativecritic.co.uk, where some of the chapters have become unfixed from the page.

Author : Emma Willis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030851026

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Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence by Emma Willis Pdf

This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.

Author : Edith E. Cuthell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000980300

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An Imperial Victim: Marie Louise by Edith E. Cuthell Pdf

Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0765607042

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A Kabuki Reader by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

Established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars provide a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is written, produced, staged, and performed; its place in world theater; and a translation of one play.

Author : Emily Soldene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Actresses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020071614

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My Theatrical and Musical Recollections by Emily Soldene Pdf

Author : Frederick Penzel
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008397997

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Theatre Lighting Before Electricity by Frederick Penzel Pdf

Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10798720

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The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Henry Noel Humphreys Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081667895

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The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review by Anonim Pdf