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Author : Paul Kuritz
Publisher : PAUL KURITZ
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0135478618
Author : Tom Cornford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317288664
Theatre Studios explores the history of the studio model in England, first established by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jacques Copeau and others in the early twentieth century, and later developed in the UK primarily by Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine, Michael Chekhov and Joan Littlewood, whose studios are the focus of this study. Cornford offers in-depth accounts of the radical, collective work of these leading theatre companies of the mid-twentieth century, considering the models of ensemble theatre-making that they developed and their remnants in the newly publicly-funded UK theatre establishment of the 1960s. In the process, this book develops an approach to understanding the politics of artistic practices rooted in the work of John Dewey, Antonio Gramsci and the standpoint feminists. It concludes by considering the legacy of the studio movement for twenty-first-century theatre, partly by tracking its echoes in the work of Secret Theatre at the Lyric, Hammersmith (2013–2015). Students and makers of theatre alike will find in this book a provocative and illuminating analysis of the politics of performance-making and a history of the theatre as a site for developing counterhegemonic, radically democratic, anti-individualist forms of cultural production.
Author : A. M. Nagler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780486315546
An annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, props, much more.
Author : Triffin I. Morris,Gregory DL Morris,Rachel E. Pollock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351052337
A History of the Theatre Costume Business is the first-ever comprehensive book on the subject, as related by award-winning actors and designers, and first hand by the drapers, tailors, and craftspeople who make the clothes that dazzle on stage. Readers will learn why stage clothes are made today, by whom, and how. They will also learn how today’s shops and ateliers arose from the shops and makers who founded the business. This never-before-told story shows that there is as much drama behind the scenes as there is in the performance: famous actors relate their intimate experiences in the fitting room, the glories of gorgeous costumes, and the mortification when things go wrong, while the costume makers explain how famous shows were created with toil, tears, and sweat, and sometimes even a little blood. This is history told by the people who were present at the creation – some of whom are no longer around to tell their own story. Based on original research and first-hand reporting, A History of the Theatre Costume Business is written for theatre professionals: actors, directors, producers, costume makers, and designers. It is also an excellent resource for all theatregoers who have marveled at the gorgeous dresses and fanciful costumes that create the magic on stage, as well as for the next generation of drapers and designers.
Author : Charlotte M. Canning,Thomas Postlewait
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587299384
"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --
Author : Paul Edmondson,Bridget Escolme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350316928
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.
Author : William Grange
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761860044
A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange discusses theatre from 534 BC in Athens to 1681 AD in Madrid. The book contains highly informative chapters on theatre culture in the ancient classical world, the medieval period, the Italian Renaissance, classical Asia, German-speaking Europe, France to 1658, and England to 1642. Following a wide-ranging introduction, chapters allow the uninitiated reader straightforward access to well-researched material, often presented in a humorous and approachable fashion. Descriptions of films augment discussions of theatre, while an extended bibliography and comprehensive index assist the reader in making further inquiries. Each chapter features illustrations by Mallory Prucha, a designer and graphic illustrator who has received several awards at theatre conferences around the US. A Primer in Theatre History does not read like a scholarly tome. Its whimsical wrinkles offer readers a more contemporaneous view of theatre than is customary. It employs, for example, frequent references to movies germane to topics and time periods under discussion. Such use of film promotes familiarity among younger readers, who can then appropriate analogies to theatre performance.
Author : Eli Rozik
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587294266
The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.
Author : Sherrill Grace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131704400
The story of Pollock's life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright.
Author : Charles Mitchell
Publisher : Orange Grove Texts Plus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1616101660
"From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well." -- Open Textbook Library.
Author : Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015002143587
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135291
Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the conception of theatre as both an entertainment for the masses and a vehicle for intellectual, political and artistic expression. Drawing together contributions from scholars in Classics and Theatre Studies, this volume uniquely examines the Greek and Roman cultural spheres in conjunction with one another rather than in isolation. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.
Author : Claire Cochrane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137457288
This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.
Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415462235
Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.
Author : Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317211761
Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre, the book shows how theatre has evolved through history. The book then breaks down the nuts and bolts of the industry by looking at each professional role within it: from the topmost position of the producer down to the gopher, or production assistant. Each of these positions are defined along with their respective duties, rules, and resources that figure in obtaining these jobs. Each chapter offers exercises, links to videos and websites, review quizzes, and suggested readings to learn more about the creation and production of theatre.