The Theatre Of Imagining

Author : Ulla Kallenbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319763033

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The Theatre of Imagining by Ulla Kallenbach Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco’s The Killer (1957).

Author : Kat Koppett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978766

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Training to Imagine by Kat Koppett Pdf

Creating innovative products and game-changing processes, and adapting to new cultures and communication styles, have all become imperative for business survival. Today’s business leaders, from Fortune 500 companies on down, have discovered the value of improvisational theatre techniques to develop creativity and collaboration skills they need.Since publication of its seminal first edition, the principles and techniques pioneered in Training to Imagine have been widely adopted by organizations around the world, and have given rise to the field of Applied Improvisation. This new edition builds on the characteristics that made it the most comprehensive and most easy-to-apply resource for using improv in organizations. As before, this book translates the theories and exercises of improv into language that is familiar to business culture, and provides guidelines, case studies and exercises intended for use by individuals for self-development, for small groups, and for facilitation by corporate trainers.This revised edition places more emphasis on the development of leadership, in particular adding activities designed for individuals to develop skills on their own, or outside formal training environments. It builds upon what has been learned since 2001, presenting examples of practice, and research on the methods, that have proven to be most effective in the workplace. Kat Koppett has added a whole new section on instructional design to help users make informed choices in selecting activities to best support their objectives and corporate context, as well as numerous new exercises.This is a vital resource for trainers, executives, and leaders at all levels who want to increase their personal communication and creativity skills, and in inspire and motivate their teams. The enhanced e-book edition will incorporate video of sample activities and exercises, as well as interviews with leading Applied Improv practitioners. This material will also be available free on the Stylus Web site.

Author : Neil Verma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226853529

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Theater of the Mind by Neil Verma Pdf

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.

Author : W. Gruber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230105645

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Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination by W. Gruber Pdf

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : New Playsinc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0932720757

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A Theatre of the Imagination by Jonathan Levy Pdf

Author : Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780878301843

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The Dramatic Imagination by Robert Edmond Jones Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912369

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The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer Pdf

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.

Author : Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135470142

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The Dramatic Imagination by Robert Edmond Jones Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134102273

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Theatre and National Identity by Nadine Holdsworth Pdf

This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-provoking essays that explore how playwrights, directors, theatre-makers, and performance artists have re-staged or re-worked a classic national play, performance, theatrical form, or theatre space in order to engage with conceptions of and questions around the nation, nationalism, and national identity in the contemporary moment, opening up new ways of thinking about or problematizing questions around the nation and national identity. Chapters ask how productions engage with a particular moment in the national psyche in the context of internationalism and globalization, for example, as well as how productions explore the interconnectivity of nations, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. They also explore questions relating to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. The volume highlights how theatre and performance has the ability to contest and unsettle ideas of the nation and national identity through the use of various sites, stagings, and performance strategies, and how contemporary theatres have portrayed national agendas and characters at a time of intense cultural flux and repositioning.

Author : Dermot Rattigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056426789

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Theatre of Sound by Dermot Rattigan Pdf

A study of radio drama

Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:702327626

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Theatre of the Imagination by Jonathan Levy Pdf

Author : Mischa Twitchin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137478726

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The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis by Mischa Twitchin Pdf

This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?

Author : Kevin Macdonald,Mark Cousins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780571261451

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Imagining Reality by Kevin Macdonald,Mark Cousins Pdf

In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald ( One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins ( The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' ( Independent) compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film. Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War.

Author : Keith Johnstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136610455

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Impro by Keith Johnstone Pdf

Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers, called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills', and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139461115

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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust by Christopher Bigsby Pdf

This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.