We Are Proud To Present A Presentation About The Herero Of Namibia Formerly Known As Southwest Africa From The German Sudwestafrika Between The Years 1884 1915

Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472585103

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We Are Proud To Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury Pdf

I'm not doing a German accent You aren't doing an African accent We aren't doing accents A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . received its European premiere at the Bush Theatre, London, on 28 February 2014.

Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350146419

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We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury Pdf

“Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past..” New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . premiered off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2012. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Leonor Faber-Jonker.

Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Namibia
ISBN : OCLC:857619191

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We are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury Pdf

"An ensemble of American actors come together to theatrically reconstruct the little-known first genocide of the 20th century. Wrestling with how to make this remote story their own, the group's exploration hits much closer to home than anyone ever expected."--Cover flap.

Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 158342945X

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We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known As South West Africa, from the German Südwest by Jackie Sibblies Drury Pdf

Author : Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350146426

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We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury Pdf

“Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past..” New York Times A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave. We Are Proud To Present . . . premiered off-Broadway at Soho Rep in 2012. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Leonor Faber-Jonker.

Author : Emma Willis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030851026

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Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence by Emma Willis Pdf

This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.

Author : Maaike Bleeker,Adrian Kear,Joe Kelleher,Heike Roms
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472579621

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Thinking Through Theatre and Performance by Maaike Bleeker,Adrian Kear,Joe Kelleher,Heike Roms Pdf

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world. Thinking through Theatre and Performance is essential for those involved in making, enjoying, critiquing and studying theatre, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the questions that theatre and performance ask of themselves and of us.

Author : Regine Criser,Ervin Malakaj
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030343422

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Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies by Regine Criser,Ervin Malakaj Pdf

This book presents an approach to transform German Studies by augmenting its core values with a social justice mission rooted in Cultural Studies. ​German Studies is approaching a pivotal moment. On the one hand, the discipline is shrinking as programs face budget cuts. This enrollment decline is immediately tied to the effects following a debilitating scrutiny the discipline has received as a result of its perceived worth in light of local, regional, and national pressures to articulate the value of the humanities in the language of student professionalization. On the other hand, German Studies struggles to articulate how the study of cultural, social, and political developments in the German-speaking world can serve increasingly heterogeneous student learners. This book addresses this tension through questions of access to German Studies as they relate to student outreach and program advocacy alongside pedagogical models.

Author : Benjamin Poore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350169647

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The Contemporary History Play by Benjamin Poore Pdf

Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes. The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century. For theatre scholars, this book offers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350340503

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American Dramatists in the 21st Century by Christopher Bigsby Pdf

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on their approach to writing and the business of developing a career. The writers studied come from a diverse range of racial, religious and immigrant backgrounds. Five of the seven are women. Together, they open doors on a changing theatre and a changing America, as ever concerned with identity, both personal and national. This is the third in a series of books which, together, have explored the work of twenty-four American playwrights who have emerged in the current century.

Author : Mphathisi Ndlovu,Lungile Augustine Tshuma,Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031398926

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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa by Mphathisi Ndlovu,Lungile Augustine Tshuma,Shepherd Mpofu Pdf

This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350032408

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: · Feminist subjectivity – from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body · Feminist texts – writing, reading, genre and critique · Feminism and the world – from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism.

Author : Terri Ginsberg,Andrea Mensch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405194365

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A Companion to German Cinema by Terri Ginsberg,Andrea Mensch Pdf

A Companion to German Cinema A Companion to German Cinema regards the shifting terrain of German filmmaking and film studies against their larger social contexts with twenty-two newly commissioned essays by well-established and younger scholars in the field. While several of these focus on classic topics such as Weimar cinema, Fifties cinema, New German Cinema and its legacy, and Holocaust film, the collection is distinguished by its focus on new developments and the innovative light they may shed on earlier practices. A Companion to German Cinema includes essays on Berlin Film, Neue Heimat Film, New Comedy, post-Wall documentaries, the post-Wende RAF genre, and Rabenmutter imagery, as well as on the persistently overlooked and under-theorized Indianerfilme, post-AIDS documentaries, sexploitation films, and new multicultural and transnational films produced in Germany under the auspices of the European Union. Organized into three “movements” representing the significance of these developments for their aesthetic theorization, A Companion to German Cinema challenges its readers to address critical gaps in the field with the aim of opening it further onto new terrains of intellectual engagement.

Author : Michael Chemers,Analola Santana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000593341

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Monsters in Performance by Michael Chemers,Analola Santana Pdf

Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts. These fascinating essays from leading and emerging scholars explore representation in performance, specifically concerning themselves with attempts at social disqualification of "undesirables." Throughout, the writers employ the concept of "monstrosity" to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant. The editors take a range of previously isolated critical inquiries – including bioethics, critical race studies, queer studies, and televisual studies - and merge them to create an accessible and dynamic platform which unifies these ranges of representations. The global scope and interdisciplinary nature of Monsters in Performance renders it an essential book for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars; it will also be an enlightening text for those interested in monstrosity and Cultural Studies more broadly.

Author : Sherry Kramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350338296

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Writing for Stage and Screen by Sherry Kramer Pdf

" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an invaluable teacher and guide to have by your side throughout the development and revision process." Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig "This book does what no other playwriting book in my experience has done, it offers a new way of seeing and conceiving how theatre makes meaning and carries emotional impact in performance." Suzan Zeder, Professor Emerita and former Head Of Playwriting at University of Texas at Austin, USA Combining a step-by-step analysis of the technique of writing for stage and screen with how the mystery, poetry, and emotional momentum is achieved for the audience, Sherry Kramer offers an empowering, original guide for emerging and established writers. In this structured look at the way audience members progress through a work in real time, Sherry Kramer uses plain-spoken vocabulary to help you discover how to make work that will mean more to your audiences. By using examples drawn from plays, film, and streaming series, ranging from A Streetcar Named Desire to Fleabag to Pirates of the Caribbean, this study makes its concepts accessible to a wide range of artists who work in timebound art. The book also features multiple exercises, developed with MFA writers in The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, where Kramer taught for the past 25 years, which provide entrance points to help you consider and create your work.