Theatre category: 6638 books
Future Theatre Research
Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterizes the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play...
Theatre Criticism
Changing Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The world of theatre criticism is rapidly changing in its form, function and modes of operation in the twenty-first century.
The dominance of the internet has led to a growing trend of selfappointed theatre critics and bloggers who are changing the focus and purpose of the discussion around...
Theatre and Encounter
The Psychology of the Dramatic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The book examines the various ways in which theatre responds to our psychological needs. It begins with how we present our own personal drama and goes on to look at theatre as the means by which we give events personal and corporate significance. Theatre enables us to overcome our reluctance to face...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice from 1750 to 1900. The selected topics focus on acting and performance, staging (including set design and lighting), and audiences, and are approached with...
Off Nevsky Prospekt
St Petersburg's Theatre Studios in the 1980s and 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s.
Professor Markova charts the development of the theatre studios - from their beginnings as a reaction to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
An important new survey of Eastern European theater after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Explores all aspects of theater, from playwriting, directing and acting, to repertoire creation and theatre management. Uses material never previously published on theatre life during the Communist years. Compares...
Theatre and Aural Attention
Stretching Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre – noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres.
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. I
The Age of Mozart and Selim III (1756-1808)
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The first volume of the book series Ottoman Empire and European Theatre focuses on the period between 1756 and 1808, the era of W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) and Sultan Selim III (1761-1808). These historical personalities, whose life-spans overlap, were towering figures of their time: Mozart as an extraordinary...
Computer Visualization for the Theatre
3D Modelling for Designers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Theatre designers using 3D software for computer visualisation in the theatre will find this book both a guide to the creative design process as well as an introduction to the use of computers in live performance. Covering the main software packages in use: Strata Studio Base, 3D Studio Max and 3D...
Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power
The Making of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia. It offers an original insight into the art of diplomacy in the 1580-1655 period through the prism of literature, theatre and material history.
Contributors investigate English,...
Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy
A Stage of Their Own
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects...
The Theatre of Tom Murphy
Playwright Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his...
Women in Russian Theatre
The Actress in the Silver Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact...
by Harold Acton Vivian
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
1 Here, children, is a Theatre. A Theatre is a big Playhouse where actors Act—sometimes. It is a pretty building, is it Not? It costs two big Dollars to get into a Theatre but People are always in a Great Hurry to get out. This is right, as it Helps the actors to act. When you go to a theatre you...