Theatre Of The Borderlands

Author : Iani del Rosario Moreno
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739168677

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Theatre of the Borderlands by Iani del Rosario Moreno Pdf

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories write about theater. The plays analyzed in this study are representative of the most important Northern Border playwrights whose plays’ themes present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a socio-historical and political context. The most important themes observed include topics that engage in discussions of: the indigenous, Border crossings, heroes and folk saints, the city of Tijuana, and violence in the Borderlands, to name a few. These themes have led to the birth of the Teatro del Norte movement, a group of determined playwrights insistent on presenting dramaturgical themes that show the bond between their particular geographies, histories, socio-political and economic situations, thereby giving birth to an original voice and new aesthetic of representation. Dealing with the topics already mentioned, and pairing them with more timely ones like immigration reform, namely, this study can serve as an invaluable resource to many interdisciplinary academic settings, and can grant an eye-opening insight to Border relations through several critical readings.

Author : R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230294554

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Performance in the Borderlands by R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young Pdf

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Author : Jorge A. Huerta
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1611922321

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Necessary Theater by Jorge A. Huerta Pdf

Huerta, a leading exponent of contemporary Chicano theater, has assembled six short, representative plays that not only share the common theme of survival but also have received successful staging. The playsÍ stylistic variety, from the Brechtian Guadalupe and La victima through the realistically domestic Soldierboy to the modern morality play Money, combined with useful introductions both to the collection as a whole and to each of the scripts, enhances the anthologyÍs value. Readers should be informed that some scenes are bilingual and some written entirely in Spanish. Recommended especially for libraries serving Hispanic communities.

Author : Cecilia Josephine Aragón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127431836

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Borderlands Children's Theatre by Cecilia Josephine Aragón Pdf

Author : Noe Montez,Olga Sanchez Saltveit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003848127

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The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance by Noe Montez,Olga Sanchez Saltveit Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure. This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversations in performance studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and Latina/e/o/x studies by taking up performance scholar Diana Taylor’s call to consider the ways that “embodied and performed acts generate, record, and transmit knowledge.” This collection is an essential resource for students, scholars, and theatremakers seeking to explore, understand, and advance the huge range and significance of Latine performance.

Author : Jarka Burian
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781587293351

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Modern Czech Theatre by Jarka Burian Pdf

The story of Czech theatre in the twentieth century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger story: a theatre that has resonated with the intense concerns of its audiences acquires a significance and a force beyond anything created by striking individual talents or random stage hits. Amid the variety of performances during the past hundred years, that basic and provocative reality has been repeatedly demonstrated, as Jarka Burian reveals in his extraordinary history of the dramatic world of Czech theatre. Following a brief historical background, Burian provides a chronological series of perspectives and observations on the evolving nature of Czech theatre productions during this century in relation to their similarly evolving social and political contexts. Once Czechoslovak independence was achieved in 1918, a repeated interplay of theatre with political realities became the norm, sometimes stifling the creative urge but often producing even greater artistry. When playwright Václav Havel became president in 1990, this was but the latest and most celebrated example of the vital engagement between stage and society that has been a repeated condition of Czech theatre for the past two hundred years. In Jarka Burian's skillful hands, Modern Czech Theatre becomes an extremely important touchstone for understanding the history of modern theatre within western culture.

Author : Cecilia Josephine Aragón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000533828

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Borderlands Children’s Theatre by Cecilia Josephine Aragón Pdf

This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience. Borderlands Children’s Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and contemporary theatrical traditions to finally the emergence of Latina/o Youth Theatre and Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, it raises crucial questions about the role of the child in these performative contexts and about how childhood and adolescence was experienced and understood. Analyzing contemporary plays for Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer, it introduces theorizations of "performing mestizaje" and "border crossing" borderlands performance, gender, and ethnic identity and investigates theatre as a site in which children and youth have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. This book adds to the national and international dialogue in theatre and gives voice to Chicana/o/Mexican-American children and youth and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Theatre studies and Latina/o studies.

Author : Daphne Lei
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472131372

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Uncrossing the Borders by Daphne Lei Pdf

Over many centuries, women on the Chinese stage committed suicide in beautiful and pathetic ways just before crossing the border for an interracial marriage. Uncrossing the Borders asks why this theatrical trope has remained so powerful and attractive. The book analyzes how national, cultural, and ethnic borders are inevitably gendered and incite violence against women in the name of the nation. The book surveys two millennia of historical, literary, dramatic texts, and sociopolitical references to reveal that this type of drama was especially popular when China was under foreign rule, such as in the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu) dynasties, and when Chinese male literati felt desperate about their economic and political future, due to the dysfunctional imperial examination system. Daphne P. Lei covers border-crossing Chinese drama in major theatrical genres such as zaju and chuanqi, regional drama such as jingju (Beijing opera) and yueju (Cantonese opera), and modernized operatic and musical forms of such stories today.

Author : R. Bank,M. Kobialka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137397300

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Theatre/Performance Historiography by R. Bank,M. Kobialka Pdf

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.

Author : Aleksandra Binicewicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527516885

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Contemporary Identity and Memory in the Borderlands of Poland and Germany by Aleksandra Binicewicz Pdf

The book analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands – a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area. The first section of the book, which focuses on contemporary issues, is divided into three parts: namely, a theoretical body, records of conversations with the inhabitants of the borderlands who are engaged in social activities, and records of workshops and conversations that brought together teenage inhabitants of the borderlands. Close cooperation with the inhabitants of two borderland towns resulted in several interesting perspectives on the borderlands, which are seen as a physical space, as well as a mental, intimate, close, and sometimes frustrating space subject to micro- and macro-scale transformations. In this book, the borderlands are viewed from these two perspectives. The micro-scale, is marked out by the individual experience of the inhabitants of the borderlands, and the macro-scale by the institutional framework established for the purpose of constructing an integrated community on the border.

Author : Kenneth Nally
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443803656

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"Celebrating Confusion" by Kenneth Nally Pdf

Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.

Author : National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Federal aid to the arts
ISBN : OSU:32435054084009

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Annual Report by National Endowment for the Arts Pdf

Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.

Author : Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000708486

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On Access in Applied Theatre and Drama Education by Colette Conroy,Adelina Ong,Dirk J. Rodricks Pdf

This book explores and interrogates access and diversity in applied theatre and drama education. Access is persistently framed as a strategy to share power and to extend equality, but in the context of current and recent power struggles, it is also seen as a discourse that reinforces marginalisation and exclusion. The political bind of access is also a conceptual problem. It is impossible to refuse to engage in strategies to extend access to institutions, representations, buildings, education, discourse, etc. We cannot oppose access or strategies for access without reinforcing marginalisation and exclusion. We can’t not want access for ourselves or for others. However, we are then in danger of remaining immersed in a distribution of power that reinforces and naturalises inequality as difference. For applied theatre and drama education, the act of creating, teaching, and learning is intrinsically connected to choice, along with the agency and capacity to choose. What is less clear, and what still interests us, is how the distribution of power and representation creates the schema for an analysis of access and diversity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Author : Theater Communications Group
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781458781406

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Dramatists Sourcebook by Theater Communications Group Pdf

The deities of the theatre are the playwrights. These gods have their own bible - the Dramatist Sourcebook.' - Back Stage. 'The Sourcebook is a treasure trove of sound advice and practical information for the working writer. It provides a road map for beginning writers and is an essential reference for those well traveled.' - Donald Margulies, P...

Author : Cynthia Santos DeCure,Micha Espinosa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000847963

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Latinx Actor Training by Cynthia Santos DeCure,Micha Espinosa Pdf

Latinx Actor Training presents essays and pioneering research from leading Latinx practitioners and scholars in the United States to examine the history and future of Latino/a/x/e actor training practices and approaches. Born out of the urgent need to address the inequities in academia and the industry as Latinx representation on stage and screen remains disproportionately low despite population growth; this book seeks to reimagine and restructure the practice of actor training by inviting deep investigation into heritage and identity practices. Latinx Actor Training features contributions covering current and historical acting methodologies, principles, and training, explorations of linguistic identity, casting considerations, and culturally inclusive practices that aim to empower a new generation of Latinx actors and to assist the educators who are entrusted with their training. This book is dedicated to creating career success and championing positive narratives to combat pervasive and damaging stereotypes. Latinx Actor Training offers culturally inclusive pedagogies that will be invaluable for students, practitioners, and scholars interested in the intersections of Latinx herencia (heritage), identity, and actor training.