Western Theatre In Global Contexts

Author : Yasmine Marie Jahanmir,Jillian Campana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429534003

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Western Theatre in Global Contexts by Yasmine Marie Jahanmir,Jillian Campana Pdf

Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form. Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in theatre, education and the arts.

Author : Jillian Campana,Yasmine Marie Jahanmir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0367204991

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Western Theatre in Global Contexts by Jillian Campana,Yasmine Marie Jahanmir Pdf

Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form. Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in theatre, education and the arts.

Author : Monica Prendergast,Juliana Saxton,Yasmine Kandil
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789389234

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Applied Theatre, Third Edition by Monica Prendergast,Juliana Saxton,Yasmine Kandil Pdf

Applied Theatre was the first collection to assist practitioners and students in developing critical frameworks for their own community-based theatrical projects. The editors draw on thirty case studies in applied theatre from fifteen countries—covering a wide range of disciplines, from theatre studies to education, medicine, and law—and collect essential readings to provide a comprehensive survey of the field. Infused with a historical and theoretical overview of practical theatre, Applied Theatre offers clear developmental approaches and models for practical application. This third edition offers refreshed case studies from many countries worldwide that provide exemplars for the practice of applied theatre. The book will be useful to both instructors and students, in its focus on providing clear introductory chapters that lay out the scope of the field, dozens of case studies in all areas of the field, and a new chapter on responses to the global pandemic of 2020. Also includes a new section on representation in its final chapter, looking at the issues of how we represent ourselves and others on stage.

Author : Albert Branchadell,Lovell Margaret West
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027216649

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Less Translated Languages by Albert Branchadell,Lovell Margaret West Pdf

This is the first collection of articles devoted entirely to less translated languages, a term that brings together well-known, widely used languages such as Arabic or Chinese, and long-neglected minority languages — with power as the key word at play. It starts with some views on English, the dominant language in Translation as elsewhere, considers the role of translation for minority languages — both a source of inequality and a means to overcome it —, takes a look at translation from less translated major languages and cultures, and ends up with a closer look at translation into Catalan, a paradigmatic case of less translated language, in a final section that includes a vindication of six prominent Catalan translators. Combining sound theoretical insight and accurate analysis of relevant case studies, the contributors to this collection make a convincing case for a more thorough examination of less translated languages within the field of Translation Studies.

Author : Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000913644

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance by Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.

Author : Ben Furnish
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jewish theater
ISBN : 0820461970

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Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 by Ben Furnish Pdf

Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.

Author : Sabiha Huq,Srideep Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000995268

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Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre by Sabiha Huq,Srideep Mukherjee Pdf

This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen’s plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation. The concerns addressed in this collection include politico-cultural engagements with human rights, economic and environmental issues, and globalisation, all of which have evolved through colonial times and thereafter. This book contemplates why and how these Ibsen texts were repeatedly adapted for the stage and consequently reflects upon the political intent of this appropriative journey of the foreign playwright. This book tracks the unmapped agency that South Asian theatre has acquired through aesthetic appropriation of Ibsen and thereby contributes to his global reception. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies.

Author : Glenn A. Odom
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317586296

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World Theories of Theatre by Glenn A. Odom Pdf

World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre. Identifying major debates in theatrical theory from around the world, combining discussions of the key theoretical questions facing theatre studies with extended excerpts from primary materials, specific primary materials, case studies and coverage of Southern Africa, the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East, Oceania, Latin America, East Asia, and India. The volume is divided into three sections: Theoretical questions, which applies cross-cultural perspectives to key issues from aesthetics to postcolonialism, interculturalism, and globalization. Cultural and literary theory, which is organised by region, presenting a range of theatrical theories in their historical and cultural context. Practical exercises, which provides a brief series of suggestions for physical exploration of these theoretical concepts. World Theories of Theatre presents fresh, vital ways of thinking about the theatre, highlighting the extraordinary diversity of approaches available to scholars and students of theatre studies. This volume includes theoretical excerpts from: Zeami Motokiyo Bharata Muni Wole Soyinka Femi Osofisan Uptal Dutt Saadallah Wannous Enrique Buenaventura Derek Walcott Werewere Liking Maryrose Casey Augusto Boal Tadashi Suzuki Jiao Juyin Oriza Hirata Gao Xingjian Roma Potiki Poile Sengupta

Author : Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350040489

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance by Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre and performance that continue to prioritise case studies emerging primarily from the West and executed by elite artists. By building on a growing field of scholarship on intercultural theatre and performance that examines minoritarian and grassroots work, the volume offers an alternative and multi-vocal view of what interculturalism might offer as a theoretical keyword to the future of theatre and performance studies, while also contributing an energized reassessment of the vociferous debates that have long accompanied its critical and practical usage in a performance context. By exploring anew what happens when interculturalism and performance intersect as embodied practice, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance offers new perspectives on a seminal theoretical concept still as useful as it is controversial. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in intercultural theatre and performance, and performance studies.

Author : M. Sell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230298941

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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange by M. Sell Pdf

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.

Author : Stanley Vincent Longman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817309268

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Crosscurrents in the Drama by Stanley Vincent Longman Pdf

Distinguished scholars and artists consider the mingling of Eastern and Western cultures and traditions in theatre. The divergent cultures of East and West had been completely separated from one another for so long that their mutual discovery, beginning a little more than a hundred years ago, has had fascinating and invigorating results, especially in the drama. This volume gathers papers, discussion notes, and essays on three major topics: Kabuki and the West; Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West; and Theatrical Influences between East and West: Enrichment through Borrowings, Appropriations, and Misinterpretations.

Author : Sean Metzger,Roberta Mock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350123182

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre by Sean Metzger,Roberta Mock Pdf

This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings. Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521850513

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A History of Asian American Theatre by Esther Kim Lee Pdf

This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

Author : E. J. Westlake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317561835

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World Theatre by E. J. Westlake Pdf

World Theatre: The Basics presents a well-rounded introduction to non-Western theatre, exploring the history and current practice of theatrical traditions in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the non-English-speaking cultures of the Americas. Featuring a selection of case studies and examples from each region, it helps the reader to understand the key issues surrounding world theatre scholarship and global, postcolonial, and transnational performance practices. An essential read for anyone seeking to learn more about world theatre, World Theatre: The Basics provides a clear, accessible roadmap for approaching non-Western theatre.

Author : B. Donald Grose,O. Franklin Kenworthy
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X000870363

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A Mirror to Life by B. Donald Grose,O. Franklin Kenworthy Pdf