Theatre In Times Of Crisis

Author : Edward Bond,Mojisola Adebayo,Sudha Bhuchar,Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti,Zoe Cooper,Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig,Tim Crouch,Inua Ellams,James Graham,Tanika Gupta,Hannah Khalil,Morgan Lloyd Malcolm,Alistair McDowall,Vinay Patel,Lucy Prebble,Philip Ridley,Christopher Shinn,Simon Stephens,Chris Thorpe,Laura Wade,Anne Washburn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350188822

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Theatre in Times of Crisis by Edward Bond,Mojisola Adebayo,Sudha Bhuchar,Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti,Zoe Cooper,Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig,Tim Crouch,Inua Ellams,James Graham,Tanika Gupta,Hannah Khalil,Morgan Lloyd Malcolm,Alistair McDowall,Vinay Patel,Lucy Prebble,Philip Ridley,Christopher Shinn,Simon Stephens,Chris Thorpe,Laura Wade,Anne Washburn Pdf

Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help audiences understand the world around them. Since the theatre of the Greeks, audiences have turned to live theatre in order to find answers in uncertain political, social and economic times, and through this unique collection questions about This anthology brings together a collection of 20 scenes from 20 playwrights that each respond to the world in crisis. Twenty of the world's most prolific playwrights were asked to select one scene from across their published work that speaks to the current world situation in 2020. As COVID-19 continues to challenge every aspect of global life, contemporary theatre has long predicted a world on the edge. Through these 20 scenes from plays spanning from 1980 to 2020, we see how theatre and art has the capacity to respond, comment on and grapple with global challenges that in turn speak to the current time in which we are living. Each scene, chosen by the writer, is prefaced by an interview in which they discuss their process, their reason for selection and how their work reflects both the past and the present. From the political plays of Lucy Prebble and James Graham to the polemics of Philip Ridley and Tim Crouch. From bold works by Inua Ellams, Morgan Lloyd Malcom and Tanika Gupta to the social relevance of Hannah Khalil, Zoe Cooper and Simon Stephens this anthology looks at theatre in the present and asks the question: “how can theatre respond to a world in crisis?” The collection is prefaced by an introduction from Edward Bond, one of contemporary theatre's most prolific dramatists.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Caridad Svich
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719062918

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Theatre in Crisis? by Maria M. Delgado,Caridad Svich Pdf

Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theater practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theater is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theater artists and scholars from the UK, US, and elsewhere. Contributors: Maria M. Delgado & Caridad Svich • Oliver Mayer, Jorge Cortiñas, Neena Beber, & Craig Lucas • Jim Carmody • Roberta Levitow • Peter Lichtenfels & Lynette Hunter • Michael Billington • Claire H. Macdonald • Anna Furse • Phyllis Nagy • Max Stafford-Clark • Len Berkman • DD Kugler • Tori Haring-Smith • John London • Kia Corthron • Alice Tuan • Ricardo Szwarcer • Peter Sellars • Dragan Klaic • Lisa D’Amour • Paul Heritage • Matthew Causey • Andy Lavender • Jon Fosse • Erik Ehn • Matthew Maguire • Shelley Berc • Ruth Margraff • Martin Epstein • Mac Wellman • Goat Island

Author : Christopher Balme,Tony Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000295283

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Theatre Institutions in Crisis by Christopher Balme,Tony Fisher Pdf

Theatre Institutions in Crisis examines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is understood, organised, delivered, and received. Balme and Fisher bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies. This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a particular interest in European theatre and its networks. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Clare Wallace,Clara Escoda,Enric Monforte,José Ramón Prado-Pérez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350180864

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Crisis, Representation and Resilience by Clare Wallace,Clara Escoda,Enric Monforte,José Ramón Prado-Pérez Pdf

A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisis. It pays particular attention to the way in which writers and practitioners consider the ethical and social challenges of crisis. Anchored in an interdisciplinary approach that draws from sociology, cultural theory, feminism, performance and philosophy, the book brings multi-faceted ideas into dialogue with the diverse aesthetics, practices and themes of a range of theatrical work produced in Britain since 2005. Topics discussed include: Ageing Austerity Gender Migrancy Multiculturalism Aesthetics Companies discussed include: Theatre Uncut Lost Dog Camden People's People Lung Brighton People's Theatre Phosphoros Theatre Playwrights discussed include: Jez Butterworth Caryl Churchill Tim Crouch Vivienne Franzmann James Graham debbie tucker green Ella Hickson Charlene James Lucy Kirkwood Simon Longman Cordelia Lynn Simon Stephens Jack Thorne Chris Thorpe Gloria Williams Building on recent publications in the area and engaging in dialogue with them, Crisis, Representation and Resilience considers how crisis is being re-thought and re-orientated through theatrical performance and the ways theatre invites us to respond to the many challenges of the contemporary times.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021482032

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Theatre of Crisis by Diana Taylor Pdf

Taylor (Spanish and comparative literature, Dartmouth College) draws on five Latin American plays written 1965-70 to illustrate how theatre both reflects and shapes political and economic events and movements. Of interest to students of either theatre or Latin America. All nations are translated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kae Tempest
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781529045277

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Paradise by Kae Tempest Pdf

‘Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.’ New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes’ past glories. But with hope comes suspicion – and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance – and will find this timeless story a wide new audience.

Author : Patrick Duggan,Lisa Peschel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137454270

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Performing (for) Survival by Patrick Duggan,Lisa Peschel Pdf

This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground – is employed as a mechanism for survival. The chapters treat a wide range of what can be considered 'survival', ranging from sheer physical survival, to the survival of a social group with its own unique culture and values, to the survival of the very possibility of agency and dissent. Performance as a form of political resistance and protest plays a large part in many of the essays, but performance does more than that: it enables societies in crisis to continue to define themselves. By maintaining identities that are based on their own chosen affiliations and not defined solely in opposition to their oppressors, individuals and groups prepare themselves for a post-crisis future by keeping alive their own notions of who they are and who they hope to be.

Author : Gordon Vogt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023465417

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Critical Stages by Gordon Vogt Pdf

Author : Conrad Alexandrowicz,David Fancy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000376463

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Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis by Conrad Alexandrowicz,David Fancy Pdf

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis. Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy present an innovative re-imagining of the ways in which the art of theatre, and the pedagogical apparatus that feeds and supports it, might contribute to global efforts in climate protest and action. Comprised of contributions from a broad range of scholars and practitioners, the volume explores whether an adherence to aesthetic values can be preserved when art is instrumentalized as protest and considers theatre as a tool to be employed by the School Strike for Climate movement. Considering perspectives from areas including performance, directing, production, design, theory and history, this book will prompt vital discussions which could transform curricular design and implementation in the light of the climate crisis. Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of climate change and theatre and performance studies.

Author : Sander L. Gilman,Steven T. Katz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814730447

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Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis by Sander L. Gilman,Steven T. Katz Pdf

Growing out of a conference held at Cornell U. in 1986, this collection of essays exploring the representation of the Jew in the Western world investigates the role of the Jew as the ultimate other in Europe and in the parts of the world colonized by Europeans, and follows the shift from Semitism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 1642657549

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Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crisis by Robert C. Evans Pdf

Almost since its inception, literature has emphasized and explored crises of various sorts, including political upheavals, social turmoil, destructive warfare, familial and personal conflicts, and devastating external dangers, especially those involving disease, the environment, the economy, and natural disasters. This book explores a wide range of kinds of crises and the ways they have been written about in literature of various genres and time periods. It also emphasizes the artistry involved in the various works it examines.

Author : Olivia Turnbull
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781841502663

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Bringing Down the House by Olivia Turnbull Pdf

Between 1979 and 1997, a quarter of Britain’s regional theaters closed their doors forever. Those that survived found themselves constantly on the brink, forced to radically reduce their programs and shut down for extended periods. Bringing Down the House examines how and why this crisis occurred, from the British government’s scant regard for the arts after World War II to the onset of Thatcherism and its long-lasting effects on the theater industry. This timely read for theater and cultural history scholars unearths a catalog of recurring problems that ensured the fragility of the British regional stage.

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584008

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Restoration Theatre and Crisis by Susan J. Owen Pdf

Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.

Author : André Gaudreault,Philippe Marion
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231539388

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The End of Cinema? by André Gaudreault,Philippe Marion Pdf

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. The authors begin with an overview of the extreme positions held by opposing camps in the debate over cinema: the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphiles" who celebrate its new, vital incarnation. Throughout, they remind readers that cinema has never been a static medium but a series of processes and transformations powering a dynamic art. From their perspective, the digital revolution is the eighth major crisis in the history of motion pictures, with more disruptions to come. Brokering a peace among all sides, Gaudreault and Marion emphasize the cultural practice of cinema over rigid claims on its identity, moving toward a common conception of cinema to better understand where it is headed next.

Author : Hillary Miller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810133907

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Drop Dead by Hillary Miller Pdf

Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W. Frick Book Award Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller’s chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York’s theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller’s lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.