The Mask A Periodical Performance By Edward Gordon Craig

Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134424573

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The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig by Olga Taxidou Pdf

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright, designer, and most importantly an author and theorist, whose books were translated into German, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian, and Danish. Although an essential parallel to the European avant-garde, Craig was often read as "exceptional" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears as Craig's main cosmopolitan project but also at times functions as a surrogate stage for his experiments in theater practice. The book has a comprehensive chronology, extensive notes and a bibliography making it an essential text for undergraduates, postgraduates, actors, theatre professionals, designers, directors, researchers and writers in the fields of theatre studies (especially theater set and lighting) and theater history.

Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9057550458

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The Mask by Olga Taxidou Pdf

This book places the work of Edward Gordon Craig within the context of the European avant-garde and the broader framework of performance and Modernity. Through a detailed study of the journal The Mask Craig is contextualised and theorised in terms of his contemporaries, his historical precedents and in terms of the legacy he has left for succeeding generations of theatre experimenters. Since Craig was often preoccupied with creating a 'theory' of performance rather than working on specific productions, The Mask provided him with a metaphorical and physical stage for the manifesto-like character of his writings. It also helps shed light on some of the contradictory aspects of Craigian thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Theater
ISBN : CORNELL:31924100626583

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The Mask by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Gordon Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Theater
ISBN : UVA:X002071099

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The Mask by Edward Gordon Craig Pdf

Author : Joana Cunha Leal,Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003833291

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The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms by Joana Cunha Leal,Mariana Pinto dos Santos Pdf

Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism, including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts, which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism, as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Iberian studies, Latin American studies, colonialism, and modernism. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Edward Gordon Craig,Walford Graham Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:1436717901

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The Mask by Edward Gordon Craig,Walford Graham Robertson Pdf

Author : Matthew Franks
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812297416

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Subscription Theater by Matthew Franks Pdf

Subscription Theater asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort adding their names to subscription lists. Shining a spotlight on private play-producing clubs, public repertory theaters, amateur drama groups, and theatrical magazines, Matthew Franks locates subscription theaters in a vast constellation of civic subscription initiatives, ranging from voluntary schools and workers' hospitals to soldiers' memorials and Diamond Jubilee funds. Across these enterprises, Franks argues, subscribers created their own spaces for performing social roles from which they had long been excluded. Whether by undermining the authority of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays and London's commercial theater producers, or by extending rights to disenfranchised women and property-less men, a diverse cast of subscribers including typists, plumbers, and maids acted as political representatives for their fellow citizens, both inside the theater and far beyond it. Citizens prized a "democratic" or "representative" subscription list as an end in itself, and such lists set the stage for the eventual public subsidy of subscription endeavors. Subscription Theater points to the importance of printed ephemera such as programs, tickets, and prospectuses in questioning any assumption that theatrical collectivity is confined to the live performance event. Drawing on new media as well as old, Franks uses a database of over 23,000 stage productions to reveal that subscribers introduced nearly a third of the plays that were most frequently revived between 1890 and the mid-twentieth century, as well as nearly half of all new translations, and they were instrumental in staging the work of such writers as Shaw and Ibsen, whose plays featured subscription lists as a plot point or prop. Although subscribers often are blamed for being a conservative force in theater, Franks demonstrates that they have been responsible for how we value audience and repertoire today, and their history offers a new account of the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.

Author : Edward Gordon Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Acting
ISBN : UCSC:32106001686176

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A Living Theatre: the Gordon Craig School, the Arena Goldoni, the Mask by Edward Gordon Craig Pdf

Author : Roger Savage
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839194

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Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas by Roger Savage Pdf

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.

Author : Edward Gordon Craig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134058693

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On the Art of the Theatre by Edward Gordon Craig Pdf

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre’s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and prescient contribution that retains its relevance almost a century later. This reissue contains a wealth of new features: a specially written Introduction and notes from editor Franc Chamberlain an updated bibliography further reading. Controversial and original, On the Art of the Theatre stands as one of the most influential books on theatre of the twentieth century.

Author : Jennifer Craig,Warren Steele
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443807920

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R|EVOLUTIONS by Jennifer Craig,Warren Steele Pdf

Can art change the world? Or can art produce new knowledge that facilitates radical change in our slowly-evolving communities? If so, then we must ask: How does cultural transformation, whether super or slight, affect our understanding of culture and the world? Operating under the rubric of resistance and reform, R|EVOLUTIONS: Mapping Culture, Community and Change is a unique scholarly collection that seeks to illuminate current understandings of art, aesthetics, and the revolutionary impulse. The resulting work interrogates intersections between culture and community, revolution and evolution. At the same time, it examines how enduring social issues intertwine with current concerns, such as representations of the body or the book. Multidisciplinary in approach, topics run from subversive uses of the body in Renaissance drama to the effect of the atom bomb on postmodern culture. From Mark Wallinger’s Turner Prize-winning performance in a bear suit, to Angela Carter’s concept of sexual multiplicity in The Passion of New Eve. Cutting-edge and politically engaging, R|Evolutions will appeal to general readers as well as the specialist, and it is designed for scholars not only interested in issues of cultural production, but also in the evolution of politics and perception over time.

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521865227

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Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy by David Wiles Pdf

A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.

Author : Edward Bond
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415270200

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Edward Bond Letters by Edward Bond Pdf

Edward Bond Letters 5 contains over thirty letters and papers covering Bond's controversial views on violence and justice, plays, writers and directors, and a postscript that is Bond's discussion of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. As always the explosive content of these letters applies to Bond's plays and society as a whole. We learn through these absorbing letters his attitude to violence. Bond believes that all violence is the manifestation of an unbalanced and dangerous society. As with the four preceding volumes in this collection, Edward Bond is critical of our present theatre, but at the same time his observations are useful in indicating how theatre can be changed. Bond's illustrations provide a lively accompaniment to the letters.

Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781315477688

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The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 5 by Katharine Cockin Pdf

Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children.

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000737837

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The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance by Min Tian Pdf

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds. In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches, which look at traditions (Western and non-Western) from a predominantly (Western) modernist perspective, this book interrogates, from an intercultural perspective, the transnational and transcultural consecration, translation, (re)invention, and displacement of traditions (theatrical and cultural) in the aesthetic-political movement of twentieth-century theatre and performance, as exemplified in the case studies of this book. It looks at the question of traditions and modernities at the centre of this aesthetic-political space, as modernities interculturally evoke and are haunted by traditions, and as traditions are interculturally refracted, reconstituted, refunctioned, and reinvented. It also looks at the applicability of its intercultural perspective on tradition to the historical avant-garde in general, postmodern, postcolonial, and postdramatic theatre and performance and to the twentieth-century "classical" intercultural theatre and the twenty-first-century "new interculturalisms" in theatre and performance. To conclude, it looks at the future of tradition in the ecology of our globalized theatrum mundi and considers two important interrelated concepts, future tradition and intercultural tradition. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies.