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Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415312400
This book is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.
Author : David Staples
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351052160
Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners.
Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080214277X
Contains the scripts of nine significant plays of the modern theater, written between 1944 and 1975 by playwrights including Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet.
Author : Helen Krich Chinoy,Toby Cole
Publisher : Allegro Editions
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1626549613
Now that directors such as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola are celebrated along-side movie stars, it is hard to imagine that little more than a century ago the director was a nameless, faceless entity-an overseer of workflow in the shuffle of shadows offstage. In surveying the pioneers who transformed theater into the dynamic art form it is today, Directors on Directing presents a timeless collection of writings offering insight into what it means to direct and how to better appreciate theatrical performances.
Author : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429820038
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences, no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society, some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick, actor, theatre manager and playwright, who, off the stage, charmed London with his energy, playfulness, and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences, who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play, an actor, or ticket prices, they would loudly make their wishes known, sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age, setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social, cultural, and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage.
Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002566540
A collection of plays from various countries. Includes information about each playwright as well as introductory information for each play.
Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139499422
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Author : Robert Henke
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609383619
Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue, Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dell’arte in both Italy and France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and actual practices regarding the poor. The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feeling. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exaggeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar-almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as people’s attitudes toward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance such as Edgar’s dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shakespeare’s King Lear could prompt responses of sympathy and even radical calls for economic redistribution.
Author : Michael Bristol,Kathleen McLuskie,Christopher Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134601202
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : PSU:000014164354
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141917849
In The Theory of the Modern Stage, leading drama critic, Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the mid nineteenth century, from Adolphe Appia to Émile Zola. Here, Antonin Artaud sets out a manifesto for a Theatre of Cruelty, Bertolt Brecht discusses the tension between entertainment and instruction in experimental drama and Bernard Shaw defends himself as a realist, while W. B. Yeats describes the creation of a People’s Theatre. The ideas of theatre’s great makers are revealed by their best expositors, as Eric Bentley writes about Stanislavsky belief in the importance of emotional memory when creating a dramatic role and Arthur Symons considers Richard Wagner and the relationship between genius, art and nature.
Author : Adrian Curtin
Publisher : Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Criticism, interpretation, etc
ISBN : 152612470X
Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
Author : Stanley Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034995055
Witness for the prosecution, by A. Christie.--Dial "M" for murder, by F. Knott.--Sleuth, by A. Shaffer.--The letter, by W. S. Maugham.--Child's play, by R. Marasco.--Arsenic and old lace, by J. Kesselring.--Angel Street, by P. Hamilton.--Bad seed, by M. Anderson.--Dangerous corner, by J. B. Priestley.--Dracula, by H. Deane and J. L. Balderston.
Author : Elizabeth Inchbald
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : English drama
ISBN : 3487403463
Author : Eric Bentley,Penguin (Firme)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:462986412