Theatre category: 6638 books
Staging Philosophy
Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks...
Theatre and Cartographies of Power
Repositioning the Latina/o Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...
Composed Theatre
Aesthetics, Practices, Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
Experimental Irish Theatre
After W.B. Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.
by P. Woycicki
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical impossibility of what is usually expected from a cinematic spectacle. This book defines an emergent field of post-cinematic theatre and performance, challenging our assumptions and expectations about theatre and film.
Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre
The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder” Melodramas
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and practitioners, it draws together writings and reflections...
Ibsen in Practice
Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: it considers political theatre, institutional 'high art', theatre for development, queer and transgender theatre, Brechtian techniques, puppetry, post-dramatic theatre, rural village performance and...
by David Currell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Puppets & Puppet Theatre is essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing with puppets. It concentrates on designing, making and performing with the main types of puppet, and is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout.Topics covered include: nature and heritage of...
Young People, New Theatre
A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Young People, New Theatre is a ‘how-to’ book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides.
Organized into exercises, case studies and specific topics, this book plots a route for those wishing to put this kind of theatre...
Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer
Insights and Advice from Leading Broadway Designers
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In the first book of its kind to be published in twenty years, ten award-winning and current Broadway designers-five set designers, four lighting designers, and one projection designer-discuss the business aspects of the theatre world, sharing relevant insider information and strategies that will...
On the Performance Front
US Theatre and Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.
Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law
A Theatre of Undocumentedness
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.
by Trish Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor,...