Theatre Theory And Performance

Author : Siddhartha Biswas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527502604

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Theatre Theory and Performance by Siddhartha Biswas Pdf

Over the last few centuries, the world as we know it has seen remarkable change and the arts – including theatre – have faced new challenges. Theatre is now no longer a simple point of entertainment laced with instruction or dissent, but is perceived as a more collaborative idea that looks at ever-changing paradigms. All over the world, theatre now is a dynamic process that simultaneously retains tradition and delves into extreme experimentations. This book represents a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation. It looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, positing both in their respective locations, as well as looking at the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.

Author : Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0472068865

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Critical Theory and Performance by Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach Pdf

Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance

Author : Sylwia Dobkowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000519563

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Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art by Sylwia Dobkowska Pdf

This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of theories and experiences changes the way we engage with performances, as well as social relations and traditions outside of theatre. Sylwia Dobkowska examines and theorises absence and presence through theatre, performance, and visual arts practices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, visual art, and philosophy.

Author : Jeanmarie Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000045222

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Teaching Critical Performance Theory by Jeanmarie Higgins Pdf

Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book’s seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an emerging theatre artist or scholar? Which theories should be taught, and to whom? How can theory pedagogies shape and respond to the evolving needs of the academy, the field, and the community? This broad field of enquiry is divided into four sections covering course design, classroom teaching, the studio space, and applied theatre contexts. Through a range of intriguing case studies that encourage thoughtful theatre practice, this book explores themes surrounding situated learning, dramaturgy and technology, disability and inclusivity, feminist approaches, race and performance, ethics, and critical theory in theatre history. Written as an invaluable resource for professionals and postgraduates engaged in performance theory, this collection of informative essays will also provide critical reading for those interested in drama and theatre studies more broadly.

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134523641

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Theory/Theatre by Mark Fortier Pdf

This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text for students. Theory/Theatre provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. This new edition includes: * More detailed explanation of key ideas * New 'Putting it into practice' sections at the end of each chapter so you can approach performances from specific theoretical perspectives * Annotated further reading section and glossary. Theory/Theatre is still the only study of its kind and is invaluable reading for beginning students and scholars of performance studies.

Author : Shannon Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521656052

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Professing Performance by Shannon Jackson Pdf

Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context.

Author : Eli Rozik
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781802071320

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Generating Theatre Meaning by Eli Rozik Pdf

Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This book carries an underlying theme that theatre performance is a descriptive text generated by the theatre medium and that the process of generating meaning takes place in the actual encounter between a theatre performance and the spectator.

Author : Jane Milling,Graham Ley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230629158

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Modern Theories of Performance by Jane Milling,Graham Ley Pdf

The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of key modern practitioners from Stanlislavski to Boal. Designed to be read alongside primary source material, each chapter offers not only a summary and exposition of these theories, but a critical commentary on their composition as discourses. Close scrutiny of the cultural context and figurative language of these important, and sometimes difficult, texts yields fresh insight into the ideas of these practitioners.

Author : Paul Rae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107186590

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Real Theatre by Paul Rae Pdf

Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Author : Simon Shepherd,Mick Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134565283

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Drama/Theatre/Performance by Simon Shepherd,Mick Wallis Pdf

What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and institutions with which they are associated. Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis: analyze attitudes to drama, theatre and performance at different historical junctures trace a range of political interventions into the field(s) explore and contextualise the institutionalisation of drama and theatre as university subjects, then the emergence of 'performance' as practice, theory and academic disciplines guide readers through major approaches to drama, theatre and performance, from theatre history, through theories of ritual or play, to the idea of performance as paradigm for a postmodern age discuss crucial terms such as action, alienation, catharsis, character, empathy, interculturalism, mimesis, presence or representation in a substantial 'keywords' section. Continually linking their analysis to wider cultural concerns, the authors here offer the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide available to a vibrant, fast-moving field and vigorous debates about its nature, purpose and place in the academy.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135965174

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Performance Theory by Richard Schechner Pdf

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alan Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134914586

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Theatre and Everyday Life by Alan Read Pdf

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance. Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.

Author : Amanda Stuart Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526174472

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Performing the Testimonial by Amanda Stuart Fisher Pdf

Performing the testimonial offers a new critical engagement with verbatim and testimonial theatre that draws on an analysis of a number of international contemporary verbatim and testimonial plays. Moving beyond discourses of the real, the book argues that testimonial theatre engages in acts of truth telling, performing new modes of witnessing.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134379439

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Performance Theory by Richard Schechner Pdf

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy and shamanism.

Author : Jacqueline Martin,Willmar Sauter
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017593679

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Understanding Theatre by Jacqueline Martin,Willmar Sauter Pdf