The Twentieth Century Theatre

Author : Richard Drain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134864744

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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain Pdf

Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth century, from the onset of modernism to the present, providing direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating theatre the century has had to offer, as well as guidelines to its present most adventurous developments. Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist, Political, Inner and Global dimensions of twentieth century theatre. Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook provides illuminationg perspectives on past history, and throws fresh light on the sources and development of theatre today. This sourcebook is not only an essential and versatile collection for students at all levels, but also directed numerous devised shows which have toured to theatres, schools, community centres and prisons.

Author : Colin Counsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136153327

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Signs of Performance by Colin Counsell Pdf

Signs of Performance provides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes an historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between: * Key practitioners' ideas about performance * The theatrical practices prompted by those ideas * The resulting signs which emerge in performance * The meanings and political consequences of those signs It provides an understandable theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a an signifying practice, and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. It opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.

Author : Jessica Rizzo
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781950192885

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Waste by Jessica Rizzo Pdf

If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater's movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human-driven events signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders the question of anthropocentric obligations moot.Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human's perverse relationship to its finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, and not spend, their time. JESSICA RIZZO is an American writer, director, and dramaturge. She holds a DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, where she served as Associate Editor of Theater magazine and was awarded the John W. Gassner Prize for Criticism. She has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Yale College, and Bryn Mawr College. In 2017, she directed the North American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Shadow: Eurydice Says in New York City. She has also worked at the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, and has had her work presented as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Her writing has appeared in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, TheaterForum, Theatre Journal, Theater, TDR, Austrian Studies, the Theatre Times, Vice, Momus, LA's Cultural Weekly, Philadelphia's Broad Street Review and ArtBlog, and Romania's Scena.ro.

Author : Frank Vernon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0897609271

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The Twentieth-Century Theatre by Frank Vernon Pdf

Author : Colin Chambers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847146120

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The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre by Colin Chambers Pdf

International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.

Author : Alistair Fair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317056911

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Setting the Scene by Alistair Fair Pdf

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance, while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival and reinterpretation of older ideas. The contributors to this volume explore these ideas in a variety of contexts, from detailed discussions of key architects’ work (including Denys Lasdun, Peter Moro, Cedric Price and Heinrich Tessenow) to broader surveys of theatre in West Germany and Japan. Other contributions examine the Malmö Stadsteater, ’ideal’ theatres in post-war North America, ’found space’ in 1960s New York, and Postmodernity in 1980s East Germany. Together these essays shed new light on this complex building type and also contribute to the wider architectural history of the twentieth century.

Author : William Lyon Phelps
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y : Kennikat Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCAL:B4379478

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The Twentieth Century Theatre by William Lyon Phelps Pdf

Author : William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521897860

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The Cambridge History of French Literature by William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson Pdf

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370389

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Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe by M. Morgan Pdf

This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

Author : Jarka M. Burian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136465857

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Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre by Jarka M. Burian Pdf

In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian provides us with insightful portraits of the directors K. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the famous Voskovec and Werich comedic duo; of the scenographer Josef Svoboda; and of the playwright, now President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. There are also briefer studies of numerous other directors, designers, and actors. The author, a Czech-American theatre scholar and practitioner, has been a frequent on-site observer of Czech theatre since 1965. He is directly acquainted with many of the major artists and the most notable productions that have made Czech theatre internationally famous.

Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300081022

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Out on Stage by Alan Sinfield Pdf

This intriguing, authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day and examines scores of British and American plays and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward, Hellman, O'Neill, Le Roi Jones, and Joe Orton.

Author : Alison Hodge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415194525

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Twentieth Century Actor Training by Alison Hodge Pdf

Actor training is arguably one of the most unique phenomenons of 20th-century theatre making. This text analyses the theories, training exercises and productions of 14 key directors.

Author : Donald McManus
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Clowns in literature
ISBN : 0874138086

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No Kidding! by Donald McManus Pdf

This work examines the way the clown has been used as a serious character by important playwrights and directors in twentieth-century theater. Experiments with Clown by Jean Cocteau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Giorgio Strehler, Dario Fo, and Roberto Begnini are examined.

Author : Christopher Baugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316157

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Theatre, Performance and Technology by Christopher Baugh Pdf

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice. Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.

Author : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136155000

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Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage by Alexander Feldman Pdf

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.