Theatre category: 6638 books

Cover of Theory for Theatre Studies: Space
by Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance?...
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Reverberations across Small-Scale British Theatre

Politics, Aesthetics and Forms

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Between 1960 and 2010, a new generation of British avant-garde theatre companies, directors, designers, and performers emerged. Some of these companies and individuals have endured to become part of theatre history while others have disappeared from the scene, mutated into new forms, or become part...
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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

by John C. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
Cover of Who Keeps the Score on the London Stages?
by Kalina Stefanova
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

How does one become a theater critic in London? What do the theater critics think of their profession? How are they judged by those they critique? What do both critics and theatre-makers think of their mutual object of desire - the British Theatre? Who Keeps the Score on the London Stages?...
Cover of Popular Theatre and Political Utopia in France, 1870—1940
by Jessica Wardhaugh
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world. As the French found innovative ways of imagining culture and politics in the age of the masses, popular theatre became central to...
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Staging Strangers

Theatre and Global Ethics

by Barry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural difference...
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Disobedient Theatre

Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play

by Chris Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective, powerful and resonant? Drawing from both theory and...
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Applied Theatre Second Edition

International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatrereturns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their own theatrical projects, it served as a vital addition to this area of growing interest, winning the...
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Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland

Towards a New Interculturalism

by Charlotte McIvor
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

This book investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for theatre and performance studies at large. Offering the first full-length, post-1990s study of the effect of...
Cover of Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition
by Paul Allain
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005

In 1977, the Gardzienice Theatre Association, an experimental theatre company was founded in a tiny Polish village. By 1992 The Observer was hailing "Brilliant Gardzienice...and orgy of joy, anguish, prayer and lamentation performed in candlelight with hurtling energy and at breakneck speed...Physically...
Cover of Mise En Scene French Theatre Now
by Annie Sparks, Annie Stephenson, David Bradby
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014

A invaluable survey of French theatre since 1968 Mise en Scène is a book in two parts. The first half is a probing look at French theatre now, providing an historical and critical survey of drama and theatre in France since 1968. It explores playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras,...
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Theatre and Consciousness

Explanatory Scope and Future Potential

by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005

For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis. They include philosophy, neurosciences, psychology, physics and biology, and approaches focusing on human experience. The Centre for Consciousness...
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OSTERMEIER

(english edition)

by Gerhard Jörder, Thomas Ostermeier
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016

Thomas Ostermeier is one of the best-known European theatre makers and is regarded by many as "the face of modern German theatre" (DIE ZEIT). His major Ibsen productions and his "Hamlet", starring Lars Eidinger tour the globe; Berlin's Schaubühne, where he has been the artistic...
Cover of Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance
by Maurya Wickstrom, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism...
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