Theatre category: 6638 books

Cover of A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity
by Tatiana Chemi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

This book considers the pedagogy of the theatre laboratory, focusing on seminal theatre group Odin Teatret. It provides a detailed discussion of the historical background to theatre laboratories, including their conception, before moving on to specific examples of how the work at Odin Teatret crosscuts...
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Red Velvet

2nd edition

by Ms Lolita Chakrabarti
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

It's like being at a crossroads - a point of absolute, unequivocal change. It makes the blood rush. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over...
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The Viewpoints Book

A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

by Anne Bogart, Tina Landau
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004

The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau...
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The Horse's Mouth: How Handspring and the National Theatre made War Horse

How Handspring and the National Theatre Made War Horse

by Mervyn Millar
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

‘This story – the story of making the first show – is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and naïve we felt back then. It’s the spark underneath each new version and each fresh company who bring the fuel and the heat to inspire every production of War Horse.’ - Mervyn Millar This...
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by Jane Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret*,* he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of...
Cover of Meyerhold on Theatre
by Mr Edward Braun
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated...
Cover of A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular: * Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls House and Hedda Gabler * Anton Chekhov - The...
Cover of An Introduction to Theatre Design
by Stephen Di Benedetto
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

This introduction to theatre design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student. Through its numerous illustrated case studies and analysis of key terms, students will build an understanding of the design process and be able to: identify...
Cover of Theatre
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less...
Cover of Revolutionary Theatre
by Robert Leach
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005

Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod Meyerhold....
Cover of The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals)
by Michael Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s...
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by Peter M Boenisch, Thomas Ostermeier
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Thomas Ostermeier is the most internationally recognised German theatre director of the present. With this book, he presents his directorial method for the first time. The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier provides a toolkit for understanding and enacting the strategies of his advanced contemporary approach...
Cover of Theory/Theatre: An Introduction
by Mark Fortier
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002

Theory/Theatre: An Introduction provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. Drawing...
Cover of The Theatre of Martin Crimp
by Aleks Sierz
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp and a host of directors and actors who have...
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